Holiday parties are mostly over, and I've seen Sonos remote controls inspire undisguised jealousy among the gadget loving set on both sides of the Atlantic (and Central America). This Jive dev kit could compare quite favorably to Sonos, and appears designed to accomplish exactly that (plugins could make it even better).
This needs to get to market ASAP as without such a remote control it is hard to pitch SB3 compared to Sonos. Harmony integration would also be nice to have, but might be a good way to add value to a later product. The mostly open state of the server software is interesting to the tech savvy but the allure of portable blinkenlights is attractive enough for people to pull down walls and rewire entire homes/rooms. $150 price would be ideal, but I expect to pay more for v1.0. Note-- 802.11[bg] is near-inoperable in many metropolitan areas (i.e. Manhattan). A Jive device + SlimNAS-type box (with working SoftSqueeze, 802.11 radio, and automatic CDDA extraction) + SB3 package might be as much kit as many new customers ever need... -- syburgh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37856 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jive
