You could always pick up a tiny monitor if all you wanted was audio and it would have the advantage of a big interrface.
The movie rental deal with all the studios and for many countries not just the USA is of course amazing and really shows Apple's power. Clearly they can and will put together a subscription service for audio as well. Then you could play anything in the world and move anything you listen to a lot onto your ipod all for a monthy fee. Thats the dream. The problem anyone will have in competing with apple is getting the same content offerings (eg I can't get Rhapsody in the UK), the economies of scale in equipment costs ($325 for 160Gb Apple TV vs $400 for simple duet + remote), and the extreme difficulty of writing software sexy enough to compete with Apple (slimserver vs itunes). I think Sonos has had it too - but if there is a lesson in the popularity of that it's that slimdevices have been too focused on the people on this site who like to hack and play with degrees in geeek. But even Sonos has no buit in hard drive and you can not seriously recommend the qnap to the man on the street. I guess Apple pretty much have it in the bag even though their focus is so far on TV not music. -- willyhoops ------------------------------------------------------------------------ willyhoops's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10563 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42292 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
