pippin;495544 Wrote: > Maybe due to cost. > > 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.
Err, yes it is! I for one use a Media Player (Xtreamer) for both audio and video. Oh, and internet radio, and watching Youtube, and if I wanted I could also view photos.. The usual place people want to listen to music is the living room. Most people have the TV and Hi-Fi in close proximity. It makes complete sense to have one box connected to both and serving all media. Not sure about the old and new world. I'm in the UK, what does that make me?! -- iboum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iboum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
