what would be a great SB innovation is if the SB Touch could be a Airplay receiver (like an Apple TV, Denon Receiver or the growing list of devices that can do it) As an earlier post pointed out, it may be that Apple won't allow it on an open platform, but I thought the SB Touch firmware was proprietary, no?
I think Airplay's appeal is the growing number of Apps that support it (examples: Pandora, Spotify, etc) and the fact that it will playback local content from any iOS device. A friend comes over, they can play there stuff directly from there phone/iPad, etc (One of the ironies of Airplay is that it allows the Apple TV to playback streaming services that it is otherwise closed to - like Pandora and Spotify,. It makes no sense to me....) on airplay quality - it's not so great. For example if you want to use Pandora with Apple TV (or other Airplay receiver) from a iOS device it has to get the content from the Internet over WiFi and then send it back out over Wifi to the Airplay Receiver (and maybe another Wifif hop if the Apple TV/Airplay Receiver is not hard wired). In my test/use with only lossy formats there are dropouts - not so many to make it unusable but enough for it to be not unexpected. nevertheless, given Airplay's momentum, I think the SB Touch doubling as an Airplay receiver has enormous appeal and would be a great selling point for it. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
