MrSinatra;496072 Wrote: > > i'm not so sure its that big a deal. logitech wasn't used to slim type > devices when it bought slim. its "logitech jukebox" was simply goofy by > comparison, altho it did have a neat color remote. vortexbox has most > of it down audiowise, and they're no big player. logitech could buy the > rights to mythtv or something similar and put that on a linux server box > they sell with SBS and other apps. they could combine the apps later, > or not. i think the main kernel of my idea is that logitech figure out > how to monitize the server as hardware, as well as make it more > versatile. > Believe me, media center solutions is a big deal. There is a reason why most video streaming devices doesn't include any recording capability. It's fairly "easy" as long as you limit it to watching streamed video from a internet source or a hard drive. As soon as you start to involve recording it gets complicated.
This is also IMHO the biggest problem with all video streaming devices, they don't handle the recording part so you need to have another device to handle that. The other device which handles the recording is typically a media center solution which also can stream video which make the first device obsolete. I really think that a media center solution is the best thing for the living room, if someone just can make it good enough for everything. So far, none has succeeded IMHO. MrSinatra;496072 Wrote: > > exactly why the opening is still there for logitech. whats so > frustrating about all of the options available today, is that nothing > does it all the way you'd think its obvious something should. > I'm not questioning that there is a opening because it really is and has been so for 5-10 years. No one has been able to fill the hole satisfactory so far. The thing that makes me think this is the wrong way is that Logitech is a hardware company, they have huge experience of making consumer hardware. However, media center solutions are mostly about software and software is very different to hardware in many aspects. If big software companies like Microsoft and Apple hasn't been able to come up with something satisfactory I seriously doubt that it's a good idea for Logitech to do it. MrSinatra;496072 Wrote: > > whats interesting is how many more there arethat do SO MUCH MORE, MORE > EASILY, and CHEAPER, than what slims stuff can do. again, i see the HQ > part as the only thing currently that keeps me with slim for now, and > that could easily change. and even so, that alone makes it a niche item > for audiophile-ish types. if i'm logitech, i see that as a big problem, > how can it gain marketshare when it costs more, and does less, and is > harder to use? > I completely agree, they have to do something to gain an advantage compared to the competitors. Audio quality isn't going to be good enough as soon as the traditional HiFi companies starts to catch up. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
