stephenkca;496026 Wrote: > FWIW, I agree with the camp that sees audio and video as two entirely > different animals. Children happily ask to watch the same Disney film > over and over again, and teenagers might watch the same slasher film 18 > times over, but even first rate video is largely once through watching > except maybe for film students. OTOH, good audio gets played over and > over again by what I suspect is the majority of people. Logitech > shouldn't try to be all things to all people with SB. Video might be a > nice to have, but the core functionality should focus on audio.
why? what is the business rationale for that POV? its like a gas station saying it shouldn't also sell milk, just focus on gas. (not a great analogy but i hope it makes the point ;) and i keep hearing this idea about video not being important in this thread. well, i guess all the companies selling dvd players should give up the ghost then? youtube should shut down? i mean first of all, its not just once watched movies, altho a lot of people collect movies/tv the way we collect music, (do dvd sales not make that obvious?). its also video services, like netflix, and then there are these strange apps called "families" that like their home movies and pics on their TV for repeated viewing. ;) i didn't mention it, but i'd think my proposed server hardware would have to be vortexbox-like, in that it could rip/play CDs, rip/play dvds (unencrypted), edit metadata, and record video inputs like mythtv. while it would be one box, it wouldn't necessarily have to be one app fits all. it could be "smart" like vortexbox. also, for the music freaks, one could have visualiztions on their TV, mixing album art, now playing, and winamp type visuals, etc... stephenkca;496026 Wrote: > What this has done is forced the issue of music metadata to the > foreground, and I think that points to a killer feature. > > <snip> > > It's probably true, as some others have commented, that the dream of > providing robust metadata to go with the UI is too ambitious to take on, > but perhaps a clever combination of good standards and social networking > might achieve it over time. currently, SB does nothing but interpret metadata. i thik this makes sense for things as they currently on, but again, in the longterm, i think most people will be frustrated by the lack of its "all-in-one" design for something as basic as metadata among other things. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.4.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 35k mp3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
