)p(;135732 Wrote: > Can you elaborate a bit what you feel the pain is as I am thinking on > going the tv route. >
Here's a way to get the TV/no-TV experience yourself: If you've got a cable service that has digital music channels, compare using those to using the Internet radio stations on the Squeezebox. You'll find that it takes longer to get started with the cable music, because 1) you need to turn more stuff on and wait for the TV to warm up, and 2) the cable box (like the 360 or the iTV) is a multi-purpose device, so you have to navigate through a bit of stuff to get to the music. You'll also probably find that it feels weird to just leave the TV sitting there lighting up the room while you put background music on (unless you're the sort of person who puts background TV on for the noise, I suppose); and that it's basically impossible to just relax at night by lying down on the couch and listening to some music, what with the TV fluorescing at you. And while the TV-based UI in theory could be more usable than the Squeezebox's, you'll again find that's not really the case. The SB is more optimized for music listening than Media Center, your cable box, or Front Row. It's not that any of those are bad UIs (except probably the cable box), it's just that they're general purpose UIs competing with a specialized device. -- mkozlows ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mkozlows's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27325 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
