This use of the Media System for the security system is the most logical idea—it is unbelievable that it took so long to happen, and is so rare.  We don’t want a bunch of discrete systems to have to manage,  the typical user don’t want to read manuals and be a techy.  They want their less interested spouse to be able and interested enough to operate the system—that is, they want the system to be so obvious and accessable that it is easy to do.  The central music/ TV/ video / family room computer system /email access/ running Media Center at this point seems to make a heck of a lot of sense as that easy access point.  Add a voice recognition package to run it along with the wireless keyboard and remote, and youv’e got a very handy and usable (even if Trekkyish) system.  Now if they could only come up with a reasonably inexpensive multipath music distribution system to work with this, to go along with the video piped to different TV sets in the house, without costing so much, we would be all set.  So far, the middleincome home owner doesn’t have the financial freedom to drop thousands for the showplace systems displayed in the mag. It ends up like a being a tradeoff of a partial system or no system.