woodhome;352218 Wrote: > Thanks for the input, and I'm sorry if I touched a sore spot Autopilot. > I'll wind up resolving the video problem somehow, and spending some $ to > do it. Like lots of people, there's no separation anymore between my > audio equipment and my TV/Video player. It's all one system. Slim > Devices are a great product and I'd rather have a system where I know > everything will play nicely together. So if you're listening product > development...
It not a sore point, i would just prefer to see Slim Devices focus on what they are proven to be good at. Most all-in-one devices tend to be "jack of all trades, master of none". Horrible interfaces, watered down redundant feature sets which require a TV to operate and overly complicated - because they are trying to be too many things to too many people. Another reason I much prefer seperation to because i don't like to have all my eggs in one basket. For example, i have prefer a seperate mobile phone, sat nav, camera and MP3 player - They all do there jobs better than an all-in-one devices, and if a better sat nav comes on the market i can upgrade that and not have to also buy a new phone and MP3 player which i am happy with. It would be cheaper too. It's also a mistake to just think you can just bolt on video playback. It might be fairly easy to bold audio playback to a video streamer (because they already do it in a way), but not the other way around - and especially with the Slim Devices model of doing things. Video is a whole new ball game, of HDMI etc. There is no way you could really add video to Squeezecenter and the Squeezeboxes themselves - which are thin clients, powered by a server - would need much much more power (HD decoding takes a lot more processing power). So although i guess it could be done, the "Slim Device" ethos would need to change, i and would not like to see such a radical change to a winning formula. Also, the added development overhead could be detrimental. Squeezebox owners enjoy frequent software updates and new features. If they started doing video work too, you could be sure the updates and new feures would be less frequent. It would also be in danger of quickly becoming bloatware, like iTunes has, and Squeezecenter is arguably already more power hungry than some poeople would like. Let companies concentrate on what they are good at - Lexus make nice cars but would they make great Motorcycles too? They might do, sure, but it's probably best they let other people do that. That said, they may well already have something like the SqueezeboxVideo(tm) on the drawing board, they certainly have a tallented development team. But i would personally rather see it as a seperate line rather than some multimedia mish mash. But maybe thats just me. -- autopilot *Lounge :* Squeezebox Classic -> Cambridge Audio Azur 640a -> Mission 701's. *Bedroom :* Squeezebox Receiver -> Trends TA10.1 Class-T -> Kef Cresta 1's *Office :* Softsqueeze -> Logitech Active 5.1's. *Kitchen :* Squeezebox Boom -coming soon- *Roaming : * Squeezebox Controller -> Logitech mm28 portable speakers / Shure E2c's *Controllers :* Squeezebox Controller x 2 + Logitech Harmony one *Server :* SC7.3b (Vista 64) 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/domrevans/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ autopilot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54001 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
