As Snapstream decides internally what they want to do with Beyond Media, I have been thinking of ways they could make the BM and/or BTV product better. Beyond the basic bug fixes and improvements in Beyond Media and beyond Integration (lets leave those discussions for the other threads), having more developers write plugins for the two (or someday one) HTPC SS programs makes the end experience better and makes the two programs more desirable.
It would be nice if SS would offer some sort of monetary incentive or even a promise of a free upgrade to the next version of BTV/BM if they write a workable plugin. Alternatively SS could promote the incentive to the public and offer free or heavily discounted software to those who write a workable plugin. This would not only encourage current users to develop plugins, but also bring in new users and capable developers.
Anyone else have ideas regarding this? A ways back I started
this thread with some BM plugin ideas, but this could work for BTV plugins as well.