IRJ;255651 Wrote: > I still do not understand the SD pathway. > > For quite some time I have held off buying more SB(3)s as while I > considered them excellent technically, I felt they had become rather > over priced. I was hoping the morphing with Logitech's people would > reduce the hardware cost of these machines. > > Now they issue a new SB, the SBR, for an excellent $150.00. I became > excited that I could pair with my original SBs and continue to control > them all with my WiFi. Although some seem to think this is clunky, I > find it highly satisfactory. But Nope! To conrol an SBR one needs the > new $250.00 controller so going the new route would cost me $400.00 for > one extra SB(R). Of course I could go and buy the SB3 for $300.00, but I > already rejected this as not good pricing. > > I feel somewhat cast aside, as an early customer of SB and being forced > into new proprietary hardware to grow my system. I do not understand why > the new SBR hasn't been enabled to be controlled by WiFi, to give users > and especially long standing costomers a choice. It seems that SD want > to force the new proprietary controller on all of us. Is the move away > from opensource starting? Granted a new wholehouse system from SD now > beats out Sonos nicely (in pricing and likely functionality), but it > does seem that SD is becoming less friendly to its long time customers.
You've obviously skipped through the thread. There's nothing stopping you buying more SB3 units. Everything seems to be remaining as open as before. To put it bluntly, suck it up. This is a company that's about making a profit at the end of the day. If you don't like it, buy other products, but you'll be hard pushed to find other manufacturers that put half as much effort into working with their customers and provide such an open platform. Me, I'm waiting for the UK release so I can buy one to go with my existing SB3. It isn't cheap, but it's cheaper and better than the alternatives IMO and will integrate better with my stereo system than another SB3. -- Cry Havok ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cry Havok's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3267 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
