radish;141983 Wrote: > I have something like 15 remote controls in a drawer in my living room. > All of them look essentially the same as the standard slim remote, a > bunch of buttons on a rectangular lump of plastic. The display, if any, > is on the device itself - not the controller. Now I'm not trying to > argue that this is an ideal situation - I replaced all 15 of those with > a Harmony after all - but it doesn't seem to be a major problem in most > people's eyes. > > I can't read the screen on my ipod from the other side of the room > either, but I don't see people complaining about that. For myself (and > I realise I don't represent everyone) - it's the web interface which > sold me on slim. Without that I wouldn't have bought the 4 squeezeboxes > and a transporter which currently sit in my apartment. >
In my case, I want to stash all the electronica away in a closet and so can't depend on line-of-sight to some display to show me what I'm doing. Nor do I want to carry around the equivalent of a tablet PC to run my audio system (I should add that I also have a universal remote, the chief virtue of which is that it replaces a bunch of others reasonably well, although I don't much like its size). I'd rather have a smaller device with a context-sensitive UI brilliantly designed to the task, which in this case is navigating a variable number of songs, albums, playlists, categories, etc. Apple didn't invent the jog wheel -- I saw it on Sony VCRs over 20 years ago -- but they adapted it admirably (IMHO) to host navigation functions in a simple but effective way. I'm no fan of Apple and it's proprietary formats, but I have to give credit where it's due. -- Balthazar_B ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Balthazar_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7366 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27824 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
