iboum;495542 Wrote: > > IMHO the Squeezebox is going to get seriously squeezed (sorry!) from > upcoming Media Players. > Maybe due to cost. > > The future is one central box, connected to your Hi-Fi and TV, that can > playback ALL media files. > No, it's not. Completely different use cases between Audio and Video. Convergence not gonna happen (at least long term) except probably for storage. "Multimedia" players will be a transitory phenomenon until the technology is cheap enough to allow low end users to split it up again.
Use case for Audio: Listen to Music, while anywhere in your house. Thousands of tracks, hundreds of albums, you want to control it from any place, you play 20-30 tracks per hour. You play tracks many, many times Use case for Video: You watch while in front of a screen (obviously). Dozens to hundreds of videos, you can control it from in front of the screen, you play 1 per hour, you play each video once except for maybe a few favorites which you play up to a few dozen times. It doesn't fit. Just because it uses similar components, it doesn't need to converge. Most people usually don't watch TV on their PC although most PCs CAN show TV. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
