Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-12-01 Thread bobkoure

Actually... is there a relation between brightness and display life? I'd
-guess- that there is, but it's just a guess...


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-12-01 Thread iPhone

ghostrider;491029 Wrote: 
 Guess I better dim those displays all the way down and use the
 controller! :D

Looking for 40 to 50 years before EOL? Or you could get an iTouch or
iPhone and use iPeng.

I do keep my Transporter displays off unless I am actually navigating
from the front panel.


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-12-01 Thread testmatch

iPhone;491276 Wrote: 
 Looking for 40 to 50 years before EOL? Or you could get an iTouch or
 iPhone and use iPeng.

Or an Android phone and the wonderful Squeeze Commander (or any of the
four other Squeezebox applications on the Android Market).

I have to say, the more I use Squeeze Commander, the more I love it.

John


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread DaveWr

I believe the answer to your question is both.

SB3 is obsolete with the Touch as replacement.

SB3 boxes seem to be available with heavy discounts through some of the
UK resellers.  End of life sales I suppose.  Some resellers are out of
stock.

Dave


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread ghostrider

I think the term obsolete is pretty harsh considering the SB Classic is
comparable to much of the Slim technolgy still shipping. Withdrawn from
marketing would probably more appropriate.


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread pippin

No longer being produced is probably appropriate.


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread eschurig

Wow.  I thought the touch was not available yet.  It is surprising that
production would be cut off before the replacement was available,
especially, right before Christmas.

I'm in the US.  I wonder if there are some SB3 classics available here
for a discount.  The classic squeezebox is what originally drove my
interest in this product line.  I had been hoping Logitech might ramp up
the volumes and get costs down to $150 or so.  Streaming capability is
now being built into receivers.  I would think this would make the $300
price range a difficult market for squeezeboxes.  I'd have a half dozen
squeezeboxes at $150 rather than just the couple I own now.  I do enjoy
the ones I have very much.


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread pippin

eschurig;490810 Wrote: 
 Wow.  I thought the touch was not available yet.  It is surprising that
 production would be cut off before the replacement was available,
 especially, right before Christmas.
 

Well, why produce something you no longer sell?


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread aubuti

eschurig;490810 Wrote: 
 Wow.  I thought the touch was not available yet.  It is surprising that
 production would be cut off before the replacement was available,
 especially, right before Christmas.
 
 I'm in the US.  I wonder if there are some SB3 classics available here
 for a discount.  The classic squeezebox is what originally drove my
 interest in this product line.  I had been hoping Logitech might ramp up
 the volumes and get costs down to $150 or so.  Streaming capability is
 now being built into receivers.  I would think this would make the $300
 price range a difficult market for squeezeboxes.  I'd have a half dozen
 squeezeboxes at $150 rather than just the couple I own now.  I do enjoy
 the ones I have very much.
The original plan was that the SB Touch would be available for the
Christmas season, but software development has taken longer than
expected. SB3s are still available at a lot of retailers, but not at
$150. For example, Amazon says they have them in stock for $269. If you
want a $150 SB, you need to go for the SB Duet Receiver or the SB Radio.
Eventually SB3s may get down to $150 on eBay -- I haven't checked lately
but I don't think they're anywhere near that now.


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread toby10

eschurig;490810 Wrote: 
 ...  Streaming capability is now being built into receivers.  I
 would think this would make the $300 price range a difficult market for
 squeezeboxes.

True, but AVR networking functionality, features, flexibility, and
customization are not even in the same ballpark as a SB type player.
The SB3 could be had often for $230 brand new.  Even at $300 it is well
worth it once one realizes the dreadful limitations of AVR networking.  
:)

But it is good that the whole networked audio concept is catching on
and becoming more main stream.  Such built in networking like that in
AVR's will only help to push more SB type players in the future.


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread Pat Farrell
eschurig wrote:
 Wow.  I thought the touch was not available yet.  It is surprising that
 production would be cut off before the replacement was available,
 especially, right before Christmas.

I'm sure there are sad faces on managers at Logitech because of that.
There were Touch units in place all boxed and ready to go back in
August/September, the hardware is done. But the software took longer
than expected.

 I'm in the US.  I wonder if there are some SB3 classics available here
 for a discount.  The classic squeezebox is what originally drove my
 interest in this product line.  I had been hoping Logitech might ramp up
 the volumes and get costs down to $150 or so. 

The display on the classic is really expensive. No unit with that
display can get down to your dreamed of price. But touch displays are
made by the zillions for cell phones, and their prices are being driven
by volume down quickly.

It will be a lot easier for Logitech to make and sell Touch units at
lower prices than they could with the Classic.


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread Michael Herger
 The display on the classic is really expensive.

Not only that, but afaik it's a EOLed part, too (by our supplier).
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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread eschurig

Yes, I haven't played with receiver streaming yet but did see that it
was available at least on some yamaha equipment.  That must be an
expensive display but it does look good.  Being able to browse my
library without having a tv to display everything was another criteria
for my original purchase.  The Duet concept is ok but I still like to
have the display on the unit.  Although, Ipeng has been a very nice
addition to the classic model as well.

It sounds like the touch is probably the way to go.


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread DaveWr

mherger;490845 Wrote: 
  The display on the classic is really expensive.
 
 Not only that, but afaik it's a EOLed part, too (by our supplier).

Does that mean the transporter will be EOL soon?

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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread toby10

eschurig;490856 Wrote: 
 Yes, I haven't played with receiver streaming yet but did see that it
 was available at least on some yamaha equipment.

Yeah, Yamaha was one of the early adopters of the networked AVR
concept.  But pretty much all the AVR mfr's now offer
networking/streaming in some flavor or another.
They are even incorporating Music Services into AVR's now.  :)


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread Michael Herger
 Does that mean the transporter will be EOL soon?

Don't know. We're not selling as many of them as we sell Classics ;-). 
Therefore the stock might last longer.
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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread Howard Passman

mherger;490874 Wrote: 
  Does that mean the transporter will be EOL soon?
 
 Don't know. We're not selling as many of them as we sell Classics ;-).
 Therefore the stock might last longer.

If I have spent $2k on a TP and couldn't get it repaired up to 10 years
after purchasing it, I would be very disappointed.  I don't consider 10
years that long for a audio component at that price point.

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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread SilverRS8

In the Netherlands the SB3 is for sale for €150,-. I believe a decent
price at the moment.


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread Pat Farrell
Howard Passman wrote:
 If I have spent $2k on a TP and couldn't get it repaired up to 10 years
 after purchasing it, I would be very disappointed.  I don't consider 10
 years that long for a audio component at that price point.

I've had a number of PCs that I spent $7000 on, all of which where
obsolete and unfixable within a decade. These days, I can get a suitable
professional development PC for under $2K, but not much under what new
Transporters are actually selling for (~~$1200)

Perhaps your view was appropriate when audio components had no
computers, but nearly all of them as inexpensive as a Transporter do
today. Any ten year old computer is pretty much gone.

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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread Howard Passman

pfarrell;490897 Wrote: 
 Howard Passman wrote:
  If I have spent $2k on a TP and couldn't get it repaired up to 10
 years
  after purchasing it, I would be very disappointed.  I don't consider
 10
  years that long for a audio component at that price point.
 
 I've had a number of PCs that I spent $7000 on, all of which where
 obsolete and unfixable within a decade. These days, I can get a
 suitable
 professional development PC for under $2K, but not much under what new
 Transporters are actually selling for (~~$1200)
 
 Perhaps your view was appropriate when audio components had no
 computers, but nearly all of them as inexpensive as a Transporter do
 today. Any ten year old computer is pretty much gone.
 
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Hi Pat,

I can't say I agree with what you're saying, although I understand your
train of thought.  In my reality this is an audio component and should
last 10 years easily.  If the audio industry is headed the same
direction as the PC industry, it's a real shame.  My CD player is now 22
years old and still works like a champ.  Parts may be scarce, but it is
22 years old not 1. 

A PC could and should last 10 years as long as the software demands
don't exceed the units capabilities.  That shouldn't be a problem with
the TP. The only reason for the past 10 years that I've had to upgrade
my PC has been due to Adobe and their never ending upgrades to
Photoshop.  I still have a Compaq that is 12 or 13 years old that runs
like a champ.  As long as I don't load something incompatible on there
it runs fine.  I'm fairly certain there's nothing in there I can't still
get other than a new processor.

I've had my TP about a year now and I guess what I'm trying to say is
the darn thing should work for a long time and parts should be available
for a good while.  If Michael is already indicating a shortage of parts,
I'm peeved.  For the almost $2k I paid this isn't the same as buying an
SB3.  That's not to say that if my SB3 quit today and they couldn't fix
it, that I wouldn't be a bit miffed.  In the past three years I have
purchased 5 SB's new.  If their idea of planned obsolesence is so short
that I'll need to be replacing all of these units within 2-3 years of
purchasing them, well count me out as a future customer.

With this type of attitude we might have to replace every single
electronic device in our homes every three years.  Toasters,
refrigerators, phones (oh wait we already do) radio alarm clocks,
etc...

Don't know why this has gotten me so riled up, but it has.

Howard

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20GB iPod still works.


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread Pat Farrell
Howard Passman wrote:
 I can't say I agree with what you're saying, although I understand your
 train of thought.  In my reality this is an audio component and should
 last 10 years easily.  If the audio industry is headed the same
 direction as the PC industry, it's a real shame.  My CD player is now 22
 years old and still works like a champ.  Parts may be scarce, but it is
 22 years old not 1. 

Well, nearly all audio gear is a computer these days. Ten years ago, a
good professional PC was an Intel P-3 750mHz. I still have a couple of
them in my basement pile of dead computers. They are not literally dead,
they will boot and work. But you can't run any modern software on them,
they are too slow and have too little RAM. And when I tried to buy more
RAM for one of them, it was so expensive that I bought a new complete
computer instead.


 A PC could and should last 10 years as long as the software demands
 don't exceed the units capabilities.  That shouldn't be a problem with
 the TP.

Right, but you were asking about repair and repair cost. My ancient PCs
can run in some context. But for a specific example, I was using one
as my mail server, and it could not keep up with the current rate of
SPAM, so it was working in one sense, but not in another. And it was not
economic to fix or upgrade it.


 The only reason for the past 10 years that I've had to upgrade
 I've had my TP about a year now and I guess what I'm trying to say is
 the darn thing should work for a long time and parts should be available
 for a good while.  If Michael is already indicating a shortage of parts,
 I'm peeved. 

That is not what Michael said. What he said was that the displays are
EOL. So soon, no one will be able to order new ones. If your display
doesn't break, you have no problems. And since its unlikely that there
are millions of Transporters out there, a few spares should last a long
time. But at some time, there will be no more displays.

If you really worry about this, you could order your own spare from digikey

 If their idea of planned obsolesence is so short
 that I'll need to be replacing all of these units within 2-3 years of
 purchasing them, well count me out as a future customer.

You are a bit over heated here. My SB-1 can not be fixed. Its maybe six
years old. Its lived a good life, and I don't rely upon it anymore.

Even the Classic, which is just a SB-2 in another package, is ancient
for a piece of computer gear.

 With this type of attitude we might have to replace every single
 electronic device in our homes every three years.  Toasters,
 refrigerators, phones (oh wait we already do) radio alarm clocks,
 etc...

Yep, and automobiles are not that far behind. I had a car that was
totalled because the headlights burned out. The replacement HID units
were $1000 each, two were the list price of a Transporter. Since the car
was seven year old, as much as I loved it, it was not cost effective to
fix the headlights.


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread radish

I see what you're saying but I think you're conflating reliability with
ability to be repaired. I would expect that your TP will still be
working happily for years to come, just like your Compaq. However, if
you're unlucky and it does break repairs will be tricky due to parts
shortages - again just like your Compaq. There's nothing really that an
OEM can do about that if their parts suppliers decide to stop
production.

If it's really 12-13 years old, then you can forget being able to
replace pretty much any of it with new parts. Back then cards were
typically ISA or VESA, both long abandoned. If you're lucky and it has
PCI slots you're still facing problems because PCI now is not what it
was back then. Of course the CPU (and it's socket standard) are long
gone, likewise whatever memory standard it used (30 pin SIMMS?). The
motherboard won't be replacable, and you'd need an adapter to replace
the PSU (which you may have to make yourself!). Even hard drives will be
tricky as small PATA drives are hard to find these days, and the BIOS
won't support larger ones (if it's MFM or something like that you're out
of luck entirely). However - the one piece of good news is that 3.5
internal floppy drives are still available!


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread eschurig

My music server runs on a 10 year old Pentium II machine.  I had to
change to linux but it still works fine.  

I'm sure it's not the processor that will present a long term
reliability problem for squeezebox players.  I don't know the
reliability numbers for the types of displays used on the transporter or
SB3 but I would guess they would be one of the lower reliability parts
in the device.  Unfortunately, there are a lot of devices that end up
not being  manufactured for 10 years.  This is probably even more true
if the part isn't used by several manufacturers in various kinds of
products.  

It would be nice if logitech could take a crack at the reliablility
statistics knowing the number of units in the field and do a last time
buy for support purposes.  I wouldn't want to be a customer service
person telling transporter customers their 4 year old unit can't be
repaired.  Many appliances don't get repaired because the basic cost of
any repair is more than the cost of a new unit.  This is true for a $50
toaster but not for a $2000 transporter.


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread Howard Passman

pfarrell;490922 Wrote: 
 Howard Passman wrote:[color=blue]
 
 Yep, and automobiles are not that far behind. I had a car that was
 totalled because the headlights burned out. The replacement HID units
 were $1000 each, two were the list price of a Transporter. Since the
 car
 was seven year old, as much as I loved it, it was not cost effective
 to
 fix the headlights.
 
 
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The auto industry should be interesting in the next few years, but
there are federal laws in the U.S. regarding how long parts availability
must be.  Even when GM dumps Saab, if no one buys it, then GM must make
parts available.  Of course they are expensive as all get out, but we
keep asking for all of this junk.  We have a BMW franchise and we can't
buy cars, sell cars, sell parts, diagnose cars or write repair orders
without Internet connectivity.  Can't even put a CD player in without
doing hours of programming.  Progress

If you've got the money to replace these things at a regular rate then
God bless you.  I'm betting you don't have college age kids with tuition
much higher than your morgage.  You just may be smater than I am if you
don't :-)

Howard


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread Pat Farrell
Howard Passman wrote:
 The auto industry should be interesting in the next few years, but
 there are federal laws in the U.S. regarding how long parts availability
 must be. 

The parts were available. It was just that the car was only worth about
$5K and so paying $2K for the headlights made no sense.

The Feds can say you must offer the part for sale, but they can't say
that a person driving a 10 year old car will decide it makes sense to
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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread Howard Passman

pfarrell;490938 Wrote: 
 Howard Passman wrote:
  The auto industry should be interesting in the next few years, but
  there are federal laws in the U.S. regarding how long parts
 availability
  must be. 
 
 The parts were available. It was just that the car was only worth
 about
 $5K and so paying $2K for the headlights made no sense.
 
 The Feds can say you must offer the part for sale, but they can't say
 that a person driving a 10 year old car will decide it makes sense to
 buy it.
 
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It's actually amzaing how many new cars can be totalled by the firing
of the airbags.  If I had to have bought a $300 key for my 69 Volvo back
in the day, that would have totalled it for me.  Or for that matter the
new run flat tires.  How many folks really want to pay to replace those
monsters...


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread xio

Don't know how much of a *real* issue this is. I'm sat here looking at a
fine, fully working SLiMP3 which must be maybe 7 years old...


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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread iPhone

I think the point is more to the fact that just because a company's
product gets to EOL on a product Does Not Mean that the unit will
suddenly stop working just because of this fact.

Howard will probably get 15 to 20 years use out of the VFD displays
with proper use. And even if the display dies, I would be willing to bet
that his Controller or iPeng or the WebUI would still work at
controlling the Transporter.


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Media Room:
Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr
6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Mains, VCC-5 Reference
Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope
2.35:1   

Living Room:
Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A
Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1  

Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM
Bedroom: Second Boom
Bathroom: Squeezebox Radio
Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini
Ford Expedition: SB Touch, USB drive

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Re: [slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-30 Thread ghostrider

Guess I better dim those displays all the way down and use the
controller! :D


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[slim] Is the SB3 still available?

2009-11-29 Thread eschurig

I was surprised to find the SB3 missing from the player list on the
logitech squeezebox website.  Is SB3 obsolete or is it still available? 
If it's available, can it still be purchased directly or only through
resellers?  Thanks.


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