Speaking to the post about Sony playing catch-up.... it boggles the mind that they've been in this rut for years and still come up so short. I mean their new product is ages behind the first offerings from Logitech and Sonos. At least it plays nice with the iPod/iPhone which is a baby step from them and their death grip on developing and only supporting their proprietary formats. (MagicGate memory stick anyone?)
The only reason I waited so long on the sidelines myself before not selecting Sonos and finally going the Squeezebox route is because I figured that Apple with their iTunes and then iPhone would come out with some new hardware to turn their AirTunes into a real contender. 3 years later and they have the AppleTV product but that's not close to what a you can do with 2 Squeezebox products. I'd be surprised if they don't eventually enter the fray but at this stage I doubt they could make any major improvements to what the two established and affordable brands are doing. The one thing they would have for them however is mega marketing muscle, and a great network of Apple Stores where people would see the product, worship it and purchase en masse. Would I purchase such a product? Not at this point, because I've already built a nice expandable networks of devices that serve my needs very well and it would be redundant. If it streamed 1080p HD video, had 5.1 surround and a few HDMI outputs.... then I'd buy a few. But only if their product came out before the Squeezebox version. -- coma Mac Mini & MacBookPro running SBS 7.4, 4 * SB Receivers, 1 * SB Controller, 1 * SB Boom, 1 * SB Radio on order and 1 * SB Touch on pre-order. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ coma's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69297 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
