syburgh;252186 Wrote: > 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...
Does anyone have a release date for the new remote? /Nicoleif -- nicoleif ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nicoleif's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14351 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
