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ModelCitizen Wrote: > <perplexed> > I'm a bit confused about why people are so attached to their knobs. > Surely the remote has replaced the knob (OK, if you're a DJ having a > knob may be a bit more important)? For me the remote is a much better > solution. I just can't see why it isn't for others. > </perplexed> > :-) > MC I guess this all boils down to how discretely one parses one's 'appliances' (and I'm somebody who would much rather have an appliance to a few things really well then do a bunch of things)? For me, I don't really get the 'remote is the solution to every interface issue.' Unlike with tv where I'm sitting in one spot and find a remote tremendously useful--because I use it every few minutes--with the stereo I don't need to control it 'remotely'. Afterall, I'm interacting with the 'music' once every 40 minutes (hour? two hours?) or so and 98% of the time all I really want to do is start something, stop something or change the volume. But also recognize that for me tv-watching and music-istening are two distinct activities that occur in different parts of the house (when I'm watching tv that occurs in one room in the house--music listening happens everywhere else but not in that room). Weirdly, the only button I ever push on the sb2 remote is the 'pause' button. I even painted around it with flourescent marker so I could always find the pause button (SEAN, IF YOU'RE LISTENING, IF YOU WON"T PUT A START/STOP BUTTON ON THE SB4 THEN HOW ABOUT A REALLY BIG PAUSE OR STOP BUTTON ON THE NEXT REMOTE?). It gets very granular: with the at I could walk to the place where the receiver was to change speaker use or volume and also start/stop music on the at or find new music to listen to. The extra 5-6 steps with the sb2 (find the remote, fiddle with the little buttons, walk thru the 4-5 steps to get to the abum I want) lead me to just sit down at the computer and do it there. If you never used the at it's hard to describ--but that one element of the technology was beautiful. Remember, I'm speaking as someone who switched to the sb2 and who thinks that all things considered it's a better product. But still... -- cshaida _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
