On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:05 PM, SuperQ <
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>
> I know more than one person that has asked why the squeezebox doesn't
> have TV output.  My main answer is a lot of squeezebox owners put them
> in a room without a TV.


The funny thing is, which video output would they choose?  Composite?  God
no.  Component? Eek, *three* extra ports.  DVI?  HDMI?  The truth is they
would need *all* of them.  It ceases to be a simple change at that point.
If you go that far, you might as well turn it into a video squeezebox, which
you discuss in your next paragraph...


> Personally I just wish there was a SqueezeVideo.  I've been looking for
> something to front-end my video media and have found nothing but
> half-ass buggy interfaces.  For now I've given up and just attached a
> PC to my TV for movie playback.


Everyone is all a-ragin' about AppleTV.  XBMC would be *great* if it could
decode mpeg4, but it's not powerful enough.  The thing is, any device that
comes out right now is really still in the 'early adopter' phase.  I'd say
that in 18-24 months you're going to see a serious uptick, spurred in large
part by AppleTV.  The first device that plays all media from UPNP servers
and also integrates with Netflix will be a real winner, in my book.

Ben
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