I don't think Rob Pegoraro can make up his mind about whether he likes some of the Media Center features.

In Microsoft's Improved Media Center Still Falls Short (December 2004) he writes...

'The biggest change in this 2005 release is an expanded set of photo-editing tools, designed for use from across the room with the remote control. You can now fix red-eye effects, adjust a picture's contrast and even crop it, then burn a photo album to CDs or DVDs (although the disc-burning screen invites confusion by presenting "audio CD" as the default choice). These automated, one-button shortcuts worked surprisingly well. But how often will you want to edit a picture from that far away?'

This past Sunday in Apple's Front Row Comes Closer to Couch-Driven Computing he writes...

'Where Media Center comes with a long list of features and options, Front Row does only four things: You can play music, you can look at your photos, cue up a DVD or watch video files stored on your hard drive or online. It doesn't lump in irrelevant commands (for example, Media Center's bizarre inclusion of photo-editing tools), it has no preferences screen for you to mull over, and its remote control consists of just six buttons.'

How can you go from 'These automated, one-button shortcuts worked surprisingly well' to 'bizarre inclusion of photo-editing tools'...?