autopilot;510888 Wrote: > > There is a cost element too. Surely a video capable device would cost > more to develop and produce the an audio. I would not want to pay for > features I never use. > >
WHY would it cost to much? And are you telling us that you use "every" available feature on your current Squeezeboxes? I understand you use the main one, Audio. Would you not use Video if it were available? There are two devices for under $250 that do just what SB does for audio that do the same for video as well as they both also play audio. The 'cheaper one' (http://www.hdtvsupply.com/1080p-high-definition-media-server.html) appears not to support FLAC. The only real drawback I see is that they use an external video display and that is probably because they were designed for Video so it is assumed that one will hook it up to a video display. It would be extremely easy to build/include the same video engine/decoder in a device just slightly larger then a Touch so that it would have a display for when using just audio IE a Touch that does both Audio and Video. So if this was designed the cost would not be the cost of both devices added together due to the shared nature of the device doing basically the same thing. Would I pay $379 for a Touch that did streamed 1080P HDMI and 24/96 FLAC? I would. -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: Second Boom Bathroom: Squeezebox Radio Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini Ford Expedition: SB Touch, USB drive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74510 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
