Phonon, NMM, and wow!

[hard candy]

I was reading the Justlinux news listings and ran across this:
from Justlinux's news feed

"With NMM, multimedia content is readily shared among networked devices and even "handed over" from one device to another. One example is media playback, a task that can be handed over from a mobile MP3 player to a hi-fi system in a living room, for example, as a person approaches and then enters their home. As far as NMM is concerned, the devices on a network are all virtual devices, such that "a commodity mobile phone can become a radio receiver or the same video recording can be displayed on three TV sets simultaneously," Lohse explained last year."
Linuxdevices

"Actually Phonon is mostly a project that benefits application developers. But if all of KDE utilizes Phonon it is a benefit for the enduser:
1. Central place for audio/video related configuration:
Configuration of hardware and media framework specific settings will be available in one place and applications don't need to provide huge configuration dialogs anymore.
2. Volume controls
The average desktop user doesn't understand the hardware mixer. And even if (s)he does, it's often not what is needed. A mixer that can control applications and/or application categories is what we need. So your mixer controls could look like this: Master, Notifications, Music, Video, Communication.
3. Automatic Device Selection
Nowadays it is more and more common to use additional audio/video hardware like USB headsets or Webcams. Phonon makes it possible to act on a signal from Solid and automatically make use of the device where requested. For example, plugging the USB headset would pop up a bubble that your VoIP program switched from using the internal soundcard to the headset for the "Communication" audio data."
Phonon

Now if you look on the websites for NMM and Phonon, it is pretty breathtaking.
As I understand it, potentially, you could be drivng home from work listening to an album on your Iriver/Ipod, as you approach your front door, your media center senses your Iriver/Ipod and takes over the music playing, so when you walk in your front door, the same music is playing on your stereo. Then you pick up your laptop and head to the bathroom, and your laptop starts playing the music.
NMM is available for download, and is also on a Knoppix based live cd, NMM-Opix.
NMM-Oppix

So we are getting fluid desktops (Xgl) and seamless media streaming. As the Postman says, "Things are getting better, better all the time".