sander;269149 Wrote: > I've always thought that Reciva and vtuner just looked at the hardware > as borderline loss leaders to build a subscription base of some sort > (even though they offer lifetime subscriptions).
Reciva sells the guts of the radio processing and the software to the "brands" that get the box built around it - so I suspect that Reciva are looking to make money on their hardware and software licence directly from the "brands", plus the potential of, like vTuner, selling licence for 3rd-party access to the database with their own hardware/firmware. vTuner also sell a software application to end-users (30USD) > I don't know if UPnP AV server offers the ability query or do anything > more than return lists, so I've generally blamed that for the poor ui > on most of these devices. However, the Reciva models do not rely on UPnP for internet radio access. I think that he lack of search (it is limited to browse within category) is a significant drawback, especially for first-time users. It works at its best if the user has a number of stations/podcasts that are regularly listened to and choose to put them in the "My Stations/My Streams/My Podcasts" area. Trying to scroll through over 1000 stations when looking for a particular one is painful. I'm sure that they could implement a lazy search (and this sort of thing has been asked fo rby users) - they do have a text entry system that is used for entering the wireless access code on initial set-up - but no sign of it yet. -- Paul Webster Paul Webster http://www.lastfm.com/user/BondJamesBond ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40983 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
