cliveb;507005 Wrote: > The TP's motherboard could be repackaged in a much simpler case without > the displays, knob or buttons. In that configuration it would be a sort > of audiophile version of the Duet's Receiver. Losing the VFD displays > and Transnav knob would save a lot on the BOM, and there's virtually > zero development work required - the motherboard design is already done. This would mean another player based round the aging IP3K platform. Not going to happen. If anything a new TP is going to be based round the internals of a Touch, so even if it doesn't have a screen, it will be SqueezeOS based. This means it can do native playback of far more formats and can use a touch as a server. Or indeed have it's own server with a SD card or USB stick/drive.
There is no future for the existing SB3/transporter platform. the developers have maxed out the memory and processor power, to move forward something new is needed, that something is SqueezeOS in the Radio and Touch. This isn't to say the old players are going to stop working over night or anything like that, heck, even the original SliMP3 is still functional (and benefiting for updates to SBS). So I wouldn't worry about existing units. -- funkstar my collection: *1*x squeezebox radio *1*x squeezebox touch *1*x squeezebox boom *2*x controller, *1*x receiver *2*x sb3 (sliver/black), *1*x sb2 wired (silver) *1*x sb (black), *1*x slimp3 (with rear shield) interested in any others if you have them! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74040 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
