aubuti;637403 Wrote:
> 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.
>
> ...
>
> 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.
>
I think the issue is that people are going to start comparing it with
AppleTV, which have Wireless "n" and costs $99 and supports video
besides audio.
A device with a screen is easier to sell even if it's more expensive
because it has something AppleTV doesn't provide.
For people that just wants Squeezebox support in another room, most of
them are going to want something with built-in speakers like the Radio
or Boom, because they don't have an external amplifier in that room. I
know there are people with external amplifiers and powered speakers,
but I think most of the customers would be happy with a Squeezebox with
built-in speakers.
aubuti;637403 Wrote:
>
> 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.
>
The question is just how much development it would require to support
setup via web browser and how much cheaper it would get without the
screen. If it requires extra development and the screen isn't a big
part of the hardware costs, it might be better to just lower the price
of the current Touch. Just place something in front of the screen if
you don't want to see it :-)
More models aren't always better, I think it's often better to have
fewer models and instead lower the price a bit to raise the quantities,
that way you only have to handle support costs for one model instead of
two. And I also believe the support costs for a device without a screen
is higher than a device with a screen where you can get user friendly
error messages.
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