ticalex wrote: > > 5/ No display at all. Even the simple LCD display of the original > squeezebow where the weakness of the product (as logitech kept same > harware, it is the same with logitech devices). With the low price of > any smart phone, tablets, smart TVs.... a remote software can show > informations on any device and forget the remote... IR remote is > expensive, you need to face the product, the range is short... Radio > remotes are expensive... even apple kept on IR remote which is nice, but > useless in most cases... > Not sure what you mean with this, but if you mean that there shouldn't exist a player with a display I definitely disagree, the display is one of the strengths of the Squeezebox compared to other systems, I use the display in all my players and would miss it immediately if it wasn't there.
The IR is also very important for me in the living room, because there the Touch is connected to an amplifier and I wouldn't want to use two different remotes to turn on amplifier, select the correct input and power on the Touch, currently I can thanks to the IR support do this with one single Harmony IR remote control. For the Radio/Boom type players I agree that the IR support isn't important because with these you usually only want to control one device and then a iPhone/Android remote is enough. I also agree that IR support is bad for browsing and so is the display, but both are very important for simple operations and showing what's currently played. I never control anything via the touch screen on the Touch, so a normal screen would be enough, I don't need a touch screen. I'm not going back to the situation I had 10 years ago with 6 remotes on the table, the Harmony was a revolution for the remote control in same way as the Squeezebox revolution for my music listening and MythTV for the way to watch TV. ticalex wrote: > > 7/ Many of us (all i think :o) have already PCs, Smart Phone, name it > electronic devices ..... wouldnt it be glad to turn some is usefull > equipement, with having a software version of the palyer (with a warning > on the synch accurency results) in order to turn for exemple and old > ipod touch or laptop into a Player... > Having this soft straight built in into a AV receiver or a STB would be > a must. > People aren't buying stationary PC's these days, they are buying laptops or tablets, and neither laptops nor tablets is suitable for anything else than local playback through their internal speakers. A player for an iPod Touch/iPhone/Android smart phone is more interesting as these tends to get outdated after a few years and you end up getting a new one and don't know what to use the old one for, so being able to put the old one in a docking station and use it as a player is great. Fortunately we already have third party Squeezebox player apps for both iPhone (iPeng) and Android (SqueezePlayer) so this works excellently already today. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96241 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
