boxowl;412180 Wrote: > Please, Please no video. Keep on improving audio.
Audio streaming is mature technology. Slim largely solved it with the SB2/SB3 and everything since then is an enhancement of that technology. Tell me, what new HARDWARE features are you clamoring for that would make you want to replace your current SB3/Duet/Boom with another Squeezebox audio-only player? I'm pretty darn happy with my FIVE Squeezeboxes and unwilling to spend $2000 on a Transporter. So, even though I'm an extremely loyal Squeeze fan, there's nothing for me to buy. Ignoring video will eventually kill the Squeezebox. The current family of Networked Media Tanks costs LESS than the Squeezebox and includes playback of many audio, video, and graphics formats including hi-def video with multichannel audio. The NMTs also offer some things Squeezebox fans have wanted for a LONG time, like local storage - you can stick a 1TB hard drive in one of these and take your whole library with you. NMTs do not require server software, they can discover and index media files anywhere on the LAN. Finally, they provide big-screen display of tag information and album art. We're entering a new era of networked media playback. The next gen of Blu-ray players and flat-screen TVs will include playback of audio and video from anywhere on the LAN or the internet. Many of the current Squeezebox features will be built in to commodity components. I myself have postponed a NMT purchase because I'm hoping Squeeze will soon enter this market. But I can't wait any longer as I have hundreds of movies, homemade video projects, and TV episodes already loaded on my server and the family is clamoring for a way to stream them to the home theater. Flipping discs is getting old, and I have no way to play on the big screen the many hi-def videos I have captured or created. I sure wish it was a SqueezeVideo I was ordering today. Instead it's going to be the $219 HDX 1000. Sorry, Logitech. -- Pale Blue Ego ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62047 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
