erland;496080 Wrote: > 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.
would you agree vortexbox is almost the whole audio side of a media center solution? (i don't know if it burns, but i'd think that wouldn't be hard to add if not, u could add streamripper too) all i'm suggesting is that by adding something like mythtv to a vortexbox, and selling it as an all in one combo box, you could basically cover the video side as well. it wouldn't have to be perfect to start, it would just need to have all the hardware necessary so the software could fulfill the potential eventually. erland;496080 Wrote: > 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. thats exactly why they are doing the touch imo, they are embedding the server into the hardware on purpose so they can commoditize the product as a stand alone item and get direct revenue for the server development, not just clients. apple and microsoft didn't come up with SBS either, does that mean slim and sean and dean shouldn't have? my point isn't that logitech should write something from scratch, they should buy something like mythtv, the way they did slim, and incorporate it into a piece of hardware, and in so doing, monitize the software in the hardware. erland;496080 Wrote: > 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. its certainly a frustrating situation. if you don't think going video/media center route is the way, then what do you think is the way? -- 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
