Mark Lanctot;191085 Wrote: > Yes and a toaster makes toast. Why can't a Squeezebox make toast too? > Boy, it's not going to make it in the market then! > > ...It's a different product aimed for a different market. Yes, it's a > market the consumer loves: dumbed-down, closed, inflexible, "just > works" because all the decisions are made for you. > Which is not necessarily a bad thing. > A couple billion dollars worth of marketing doesn't hurt either.
I'm not slamming the SB I'm just saying that at its price the ATV is going to be formidable. I don't think the markets are different. If I like FLAC I've got a couple of choices. I can convert to Apple Lossless as my codec of choice or I can hack my Apple TV to support FLAC. Calling the Apple TV "closed" merely means you have seen the level hacking that has already happened. The HDD has been easily upgraded Since it runs OS X 10.4 enthusiasts have added to the Quicktime to support Divx,3vix and other codecs. Perian (Perian.org) is easily added. VNC and SSH have been made to work as well as Apache. http://www.appletvhacker.blogspot.com/ for more stuff. Calling the Apple TV "closed" and "inflexible" with the huge amount of hacks that have already been discovere merely means you haven't been looking at the world around you regarding streaming players or have succombed to tired "Apple is proprietary" diatribes. I'm not here to bash the SB. It's just that the Apple TV has presented such an amazing amount of tweakability if Apple doesn't pull the reins back a bit who knows what people are going to find with this box. Logictech/SD should take note and I'm sure we've got some nice stuff to look forward to coming down the pipeline. -- hmurchison ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hmurchison's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7550 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31559 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
