TheLastMan wrote: > > I foresee Squeezebox functionality being built into future streamers / > players that are likely to have a dual audio and video streaming role. > > In my mind "Listen to music" and "Watch a video" is two use cases with very different characteristics, not just from a functional perspective but also a hardware perspective. With music I need advanced browsing and search functionality and I need to be able to build and play albums and static/smart playlists with multiple tracks, with video I basically just need to find the single movie I want to see and then I'll watch it for 2 hours and then touch the remote control the next time to turn of the device. The common parts is basically only that you need to be able to output sound through speakers in both use cases.
Can someone mention one stationary device which supports both audio and video which actually works good both for watching movies and browsing and listening to music ? I've seen some of these devices but their music browsing/listening support has always been pretty bad, so the result have been a video device which you can also use to listen on a song now and then. The closest thing that comes to mind that might work is AppleTV, but what kind of support do you really have in that for more advanced music related things ? Now, it could make sense to have a video support in a music player, because there are music videos and consert videos which are music related and could be of interest, but the issue is that everyone that tries to do such device tends to do a video device and then just add some minimal functionality to also make it possible to play music tracks on it. I believe Logitech Revue was a device that could do both things, but it was abandoned fairly quickly and I also believe its music support was fairly limited. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95603 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
