Make or buy... or rent?

What solution would benefit the user more; ally with for example Flickr and incorporate their refined imagesharing into the home media center, or build a new service from scratch? Obviously there's pros and cons with both solutions from a business, maintenance, R&D etc. point of view. But with the user's eyes?

If you bought a new TV tomorrow and it interfaced perfectly with Flickr so that your images was loaded, showed, stored and accessable from their service. Digital photography still requries a PC to load and care for your photos. So shouldn't your TV then just lean on what you've allready done on your pc? And package your photos up for you, regardless of wethere they are stored on your computer, Flickr, FotoKnudsen.

When you want to see your pictures on the Big Screen, my guess is you care about the images. Not the back-end solution, not remembering "where did I put them?". And definitely not "Aaah.. I forgot to convert them and upload them to TVCompany's image database." The goal should be that most popular services interface greatly with your tv.