bossanova808;161106 Wrote: > and maybe a TV/VGA out for album artwork/lyrics/visualisation (not as > something required, just optional, and still streaming from a server). > Having an optional TV/VGA out keeps the basic screen available for > browsing etc (and complete operation WITHOUT a TV, very important), but > the TV out DOES open a world of possibilities for visualisation and > general prettiness not currently available... > > ...we've just added a streaming video player and while it's not without > bugs it too is a major step forward. It ties into everything - > basically, all our media comes from various sources (video cam, > downloads, online stores, etc) - it's centralised and processed/cleaned > up.
I want to second what you're saying about the TV out. I would love to have visualizations. As cheesy as they are to many, we've found for parties and such that plugging our media center PC into the TV with the Winamp or WMP visualizations, or doing the folder of digital photos + music slideshow, is a huge hit. Would be neat to do that from the Squeezebox. But you're right: also very important to NOT need an auxiliary display for regular functionality! Reading through this thread, I don't think the idea of a fat client is necessarily bad. I like the idea of having a component in my home theater that has plays local storage and ports for additional /temporary storage, can access shared drives on other PCs, will play audio and video, and ALSO act as a server to thin clients throughout the house in the form of current or stripped down/cheaper squeezeboxen. I think that sounds pretty fine! And more mass marketable than the current config. It'd be like the DLink medialounge except extendable! -- thing-fish [image: http://imagegen.last.fm/3line/recenttracks/thing-fish.gif] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thing-fish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5288 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30399 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
