tcutting;453546 Wrote: > I'm anxious to hear what feedback comes from the "early adopters" of the > Touch product. My impressions from what I've seen of the specs, is that > this product will be more of a "SB3+" than a preferred controller. > First, native 24bit/96kHz support. Next, color display which can > provide a nice "Now Playing" display complete with cover art. I've seen > several threads in the past on this forum asking for these capabilities. > Having the touch screen seems like more a "nice to have" feature, that > is, I can walk up to the device and control it, if that's most > convenient - such as when I can't seem to locate my remote, and my > controller is at the other end of the house ;-) > In addition, the color screen allows it to double as a digital picture > frame (if desired). I could see this device taking the place of my SB3 > on my living room side-table. I don't know about the practicality of > playing music from a memory card, or about the rumored ability of this > product to be a slimmed-down squeezecenter server... don't know if these > are parts of the actual feature set, or just hopes/wishes/guesses of > those on the forums anxiously waiting to see what this thing really is!
Remove the touch screen (something people will rarely use anyway), put a bigger LCD instead, keep the other Squeezebox extras like native 24bit/96kHz support (although I suspect I couldn't hear the difference) and voilà! you have the SB4. -- Nostromo http://www.last.fm/user/Guermantez/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nostromo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6322 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64706
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