orrinc wrote:
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Question: How many of these would you buy?
- None
- Perhaps one
- At least one
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There's nothing silly about it! Having a bright, readable, affordable
wireless display device would be extremely useful for those of us that
don't want to be glued to a TV or video monitor all day long to see
useful information- such as what song is playing.
And my experience with SB indicates that synchronizing multiple audio
streams just to synchronize displays puts a severe load on my PC.
It shouldn't, unless the PC is severely underpowered. Anyway, the silly
part of the idea is as follows:
It's come up about 5 times already, and each time Slim Devices has
explained that removing the audio components would not save enough money
to make the device worthwhile... basically you'd save a few bucks to get
a Squeezebox that anyone you hoped to sell it to later would consider
crippled. In order to provide you this "feature", SDI would have to
revamp their production and ordering process, producing another
mainboard. I'm sure most people have noticed that they never have more
than one product in production at once, in wired and wireless versions.
The other version of this argument is that people want a headless
Squeezebox, in which case the cost justification is probably there for
the end user, but is not necessarily there for SDI.
So, it makes more sense at this time for everyone to buy a fully
functional Squeezebox and use it for the project; if you don't want
sound, don't hook it up to anything. But if you later change your mind
or want to sell the device, it's still fully functional. By similar
logic, many people buy wireless and then use them in wired networks.
--
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"I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin
so across the Western ocean I must wander" -- trad.
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