Juggler;637401 Wrote: > ... thoughts? Speculations? Let's keep the price point realistic. Except for perhaps some very special, very temporary promotions by particular resellers, the Receiver (SBR) was not priced less than US$100. The list price was $150, and when Logitech's supplies got low the resellers on Amazon were asking a lot more than that.
If you want to hit that price point, then Gb ethernet and "n" wireless are a waste of money. You don't need that bandwidth even for hi-res files. Cutting corners on sound quality for bandwidth you don't need doesn't make any sense to me. It's also important to remember that they could sell the SBR for half the price of an SB3/Classic because the SB3's VFD screen was the most expensive component in the device. That's not at all true of the Touch's LCD touchscreen, which is relatively cheap. So to get a screenless device down to a much lower price point you have to sacrifice other features, though I still think they'd never go below $100 because that's too low a price point in this market. Or instead of sacrificing features that are in the current Touch, perhaps take advantage of the fact that the Touch hardware is now 2 years old (even though it was released 14 months ago, the hardware was decided and in place at least a year before that). So they could squeeze a little more mileage out of that "old" technology by using it as the basis for an SBR2. They could potentially re-package the current Touch in a screenless device, provided it could be setup and configured via web browser or wifi remote. And they should make no promises about TinySBS. I don't think that's gonna happen, but that's one way it could go. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88170 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
