JJZolx wrote: > pfarrell Wrote: >>And the other approach has been taken by many folks, from Turtle Beach >>to Sonos and now Microsoft and Apple. > > Sounds like a trend. Maybe there's a good reason.
Sure its a trend. Turtle Beach's product died. Microsoft and Apple are in bed with the content providers, Apple will soon own Disney outright. Perhaps having embeded DRM is acceptable to your Aunt Edna it is not to me. > Why? Because it's an audio product, not some geek gadget that is cool > because you can fart to make it send an email to your Aunt Edna. Leave > the geekiness out of it and just give it some basic ergonomics. Then it would not be Slim. Hey, I have zero problem if you can convince Slim Devices to go head to head with Sony and Panasonic and all the other Audio/Visual vendors. However, there is no mass market for audio-only products that are not portable. Zero. The 'audio only' market is a niche, the mass market folks are doing iPods and home theater. > I'd never buy a preamp, for instance, that only used a remote control. > Imagine not being able to walk over to your stereo and turn a knob or > press a button to turn the damned thing up or down. That's the > Squeezebox. I insisted on a remote for my Amp, until I got my SqueezeBox and started controlling it with my laptop. And it is occasionally handy to go over and turn the big volume knob down. I probably do it once every six months. However, a big "mute" button on the top of the SqueezeBox is all that I would ever use, the knob twist part of the control is totally 70s 'hi-fi' to me. Still making the Contour Shuttle be a controller for the laptop might be a fun hack. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
