While I'm actually a pretty private person, Matt's recent post of his own Media Center setup inspired me this weekend to take a risk, and post a series of pictures of my own Digital Joy setup at home, using Flickr and annotating how I've set it all up.  We have a saying internally that we need to “Live the Digital Media Lifestyle“ and understand what our customers must go through to set up, and enjoy our products. It's not enough to play with it in the office.  In fact, eHome leadership refers to the “SAF“ - “Spousal Acceptance Factor”, when testing builds with new ideas, and products at home. Naturally there's a LOT of research that goes into this as well- adopt a family programs, usability research, studies, and more.

So while the mock-ups you traditionally see might be nice, here's my real setup, in my real home. Be nice, as we just moved in recently (ok, 6 months ago but we've been busy). Feel free to post comments, suggestions or questions here or on my Flickr site.

Speaking of Flickr, I've been playing with it for a few weeks now and I have to say I'm impressed by a number of the usability elements they've incorporated into the service as well as the Flickr API platform (or at least what others have done with it).  I just might have to move my Moblog over. Now I'd just like to see more Windows apps written for it (as Chris points out in IM an initial uptick in Mac apps).  It would be fantastic if someone would write a Flickr-based Media Center app. I see this as a big opportunity as digital photos and instant slideshows are such a popular experience in MCE.