[NTLUG:Discuss] TV Top based Linux distro

[David Simmons]

I'm researching recommendations for 'TV Top' based Linux distros.  Am
hoping to free my parents from MSN-TV, so the system will have to boot
into a MythTV/FREEVO type menu system.  I'd use MythTV and/or Freevo - but
they don't support email or web browsing that well.  So in a nutshell, do
you have any Linux distro suggestions for an OS that can:

1)
have a menuing based GUI simliar to MythTV/windows Media Center Edition
2)  have correct resolution / sizing for s-video connection to standard
TV's (not HD)
3)  easily support web-surfing (one that might attempt
resizing/resampling web
pictures/pages so that they are 'somewhat'
properly fitted to the a TV resolution would be GREAT)
4)  easily
support email
5)  be able to play various media (video, songs,
pictures) from email/optical disk/compact flash/etc

Thanks in
advance! - dave