Mark, I'll answer a few of your questions.
Firstly we made a mistake about announcing the product so early. Qnap prommised us the product would launch back at the end of October last year and they kept pushing it back and pushing it back. We could have had a small amount of units just before the Chinese new year but we didn't want to take them because they would have been off the first production run. Of course when the first batch did arrive after the Chinese new year we didn't take into account how long these things would take to format. All of this has been documented though in this thread and others. With respect to us supporting the product in to the future I can only assure you that we won't loose interest. Why won't we loose interest, well maybe something to do with the fact that we are the UK distributor of the SlimDevices products in the UK might have something to do with it. I suggest that if you have any further issues with the TS-101 you have purchased you contact me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if we can resolve any of them. One last thing. I have a Linn active system at home which could be considered to be a "half decent hifi system" and you can't beat a well encoded FLAC file so if disc space isn't a problem then I would convert if I were you. Regards Paul Progressive Consumer Electronics Ltd Mark Norton Wrote: > It's all to do with expectation. I bought (ordered) this product in > November since when there's been the countless missed delivery dates, > the bull about the Chinese New Year and the rest. Even if there were > problems in getting the hardware shipped, presumably Progressive could > have been working in parallel to get SlimServer working in all its > guises. As it is, we have a product which shipped 3 months late and > doesn't currently do what it is supposed to. > > Yes I use Apple Lossless; disk space is cheap and it's pointless > ripping CDs to a lossy format because if you have a half-decent sound > system, the difference is night and day, far more than any messing with > the power supply will reveal. > > I also wonder about the long term viability of the solution. There no > charge for the integration work of Slim Server into the TS-101 and > apart from making a turn on the hardware, where's the incentive to keep > it up to date? I'm resigned to the fact that while a PC hosted SB3 is > likely to evolve for the better over time, a TS-101 hosted SB3 is > likely to be frozen in time - bugs, warts and all - once Progressive > lose interest and move on to some other flavour of the month. > > The TS-101 is a closed system and while it will always be useful as > NAS, the USP of it hosting SlimServer may or may not be long term. -- ultra238a ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ultra238a's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=626 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20393 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
