RonM wrote:
Buy.
It's only money
Thanks Ron, I followed your advice and ordered my spare Touch, although
I'm still thinking it's quite paranoid to buy a Touch as a spare. :-)
If my Touch in use runs as long as the only CD player I ever bought (a
Denon, bought 25 years ago and used daily
Hi all !
I have 2 sb classic for many years ( 6 or 7) which have been worked
flawlessly all this time.
Couple of days ago, I paid attention, that on one of them a cehtral
third on the screen is a little brighter
then left and right thirds ( I am not sure it's exactly thirds , look
like one). It
Logitech did not invent SB, Slimdevices did it, didn't it? may be
possible some company like slimdevices buy squeezeboxes line or
mysqueezebox?
maybe not, if logitech keep on producing something like UE smart
radiobut i keep on dreaming!
Well, my father lives in Toronto, if that can help :)
In anycase, I was in the opposite situation: I have a wired SB2 in my
living room setup and it's the only model that I can easily fit in my
cabinet. Considering Logitech quitting on us, I was afraid that once
mine broke... I wouldn't have a
nervoteso wrote:
Logitech did not invent SB, Slimdevices did it, didn't it? may be
possible some company like slimdevices buy squeezeboxes line or
mysqueezebox?
maybe not, if logitech keep on producing something like UE smart
radiobut i keep on dreaming!
If there is a need and a
erland wrote:
If there is a need and a market, someone will eventually fill the hole.
However, I doubt it will happen through someone buying anything from
Logitech, especially since I don't think Logitech have anything of value
which they can or are willing to sell. Most of the source
nervoteso wrote:
just a curiosity: where are people from slimdevices now? are they in
logitech o somewhere?
Some are within Logitech in other departments, some are within Logitech
and still working with Squeezebox or UE Smart Radio and some have moved
on and works for other companies. Even
Ya know the funny thing (at least from my perspective)? Around 6 years
or so ago I bought a 2nd SB2 right after Logitech acquired Slim Devices.
My thinking was that I couldn't be sure that they would keep the line
alive, or wouldn't dumb it down to some lowest common denominator.
It took
Any chance the dimmer part of the screen is the most used area of the
screen? EQ meter? Most common text? Clock in standby?
If yes, then it is likely just wearing faster than the less used
portions of the screen.
erland wrote:
If there is a need and a market, someone will eventually fill the hole.
Exactly! Very well put! It is for this reason I've chosen not to get
too upset about the situation.
And I agree that there isn't anything Logitech would be willing to sell
at this point since UER
They didn't even want to sell when they had decided to shut down the
product line a few years ago.
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autopilot wrote:
Putting the fact that we can still run our hardware in the short term
aside for now; To me, it seems like the only real alternative solution
is Sonos. Opinions? What would you buy now and why?
My solution is to go the Airport Express/iPeng route in conjunction with
LMS. I
pippin wrote:
They didn't even want to sell when they had decided to shut down the
product line a few years ago.
I suspect the couldn't sell the product line because this would
crystallise a big loss (e.g. sale price vs purchase price of Slimdevice)
and would have had to be shown on accounts
gorman wrote:
Well, my father lives in Toronto, if that can help :)
In anycase, I was in the opposite situation: I have a wired SB2 in my
living room setup and it's the only model that I can easily fit in my
cabinet. Considering Logitech quitting on us, I was afraid that once
mine
I've been running J River on a dead silent Atom based PC. JRemote on
the iPad to control it.
Really happy with the results, only missing feature for me is playlist
management from JRemote. A limitation of the J River web service
apparently.
I am ebaying a Squeezebox 2 (version w/o WiFi) here if anyone is
interested. Used but in fine shape and works perfectly:
http://r.ebay.com/SMvI4O
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mattfusf wrote:
I am ebaying a Squeezebox 2 (version w/o WiFi) here if anyone is
interested. Used but in fine shape and works perfectly:
http://r.ebay.com/SMvI4O
A pic of the bottom of the SB2 would be nice so that we can verify it's
an SB2 rather than an SB1.
They moved to FM...98.7 in New York
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ESPN 1050 plays for me on my SB Radio, stream data says 32k mp3, but it
is hit miss, seems to stop frequently, or have trouble starting.
Might be as simple as their servers only allow xx number of connections
and it won't play when that number is exceeded?
bpa wrote:
I suspect the couldn't sell the product line because this would
crystallise a big loss (e.g. sale price vs purchase price of Slimdevice)
and would have had to be shown on accounts and probably depress share
price (e.g. destruction of shareholder value). Keeping the prodct line
On my SB2, I saw uneven screen wear after a couple of years (though mine
was dimmer in the middle due to a lot of displaying the time when in
standby). I now use the FuzzyTime plugin on my SB Classics to reduce the
possibility of this uneven wear.
Jeff Flowerday wrote:
I've been running J River on a dead silent Atom based PC. JRemote on
the iPad to control it.
Really happy with the results, only missing feature for me is playlist
management from JRemote. A limitation of the J River web service
apparently.
I love and have used
epoch1970 wrote:
Could the continuation as UER be a simple matter of sustaining the fair
value of the asset ?
I'm not exactly clear as to when fair valuation applies.
When one acquires a company they usually pay more than book value,
this being the value of tangible assets like cash,
AndrewFG wrote:
When one acquires a company they usually pay more than book value,
this being the value of tangible assets like cash, inventory, buildings.
The premium that one pays over book value is called goodwill, this is
the buyer's estimation of what they percieve to be the extra value
azinck3 wrote:
A pic of the bottom of the SB2 would be nice so that we can verify it's
an SB2 rather than an SB1.
Its a SB2 :-)
I've added a photo of the bottom of the device to the auction page.
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I'm looking into the PS Audio Perfect Wave DacII plus the bridge option.
I don't know what the software interface is like, but you can use an
iPad to control the streaming.
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bluegaspode wrote:
Anyone who didn't upgrade their phones into a Squeezebox might be
interested in the fact that
*This weekend SqueezePlayer is available at a 50% discount*!!!
I don't know how fast the prices update, but you should be able to get
it for 1,99 (2,49$) now until Monday.
AndrewFG wrote:
When one acquires a company they usually pay more than book value,
this being the value of tangible assets like cash, inventory, buildings.
The premium that one pays over book value is called goodwill, this is
the buyer's estimation of what they percieve to be the extra value
reinholdk wrote:
Thanks Ron, I followed your advice and ordered my spare Touch, although
I'm still thinking it's quite paranoid to buy a Touch as a spare. :-)
If my Touch in use runs as long as the only CD player I ever bought (a
Denon, bought 25 years ago and used daily until the Touch
signor_rossi wrote:
But can Logitech make a profit with the UER alone? If they don't they
would lose less if they sell what they can sell?
Not necessarily. It depends on the math. Let's take the hypothesis that
Slim Devices had (say) a book value of $100, and Logitech paid (say)
$250 for it.
In the grand scope of Logitech, Slimdevices was a very, very small
worm.
Others may be able to erupt on why they even bought the company.
The only logical reason was a stimulation by the Slim folks that would
have resulted in cash.
Innovation at that point was also very cheap for Logitech.
You people are whacked if you think Logitech is going to sell SqueezeBox
(rights, intellectual property, etc..) to anyone.
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bpa wrote:
I suspect the couldn't sell the product line because this would
crystallise a big loss (e.g. sale price vs purchase price of Slimdevice)
and would have had to be shown on accounts and probably depress share
price (e.g. destruction of shareholder value). Keeping the prodct line
Because is saw the note: Please note: if you change your account email
address, you will be immediately logged out and required to reactivate
your account. It looked like a pain, so if it doesn't matter, then i
won't bother - so that is my question: does it really matter?
Thanks,
Roger
2 details I've been curious about and I don't know if they've come out
are:
How much did Logitech pay for Slim Devices?
Could Slim Devices have manufactured anything beyond the SB3 and
Transporter? Did they really need Logitech's money to make the other
form factors?
sander wrote:
2 details I've been curious about and I don't know if they've come out
are:
How much did Logitech pay for Slim Devices?
I actually found a report from '06 that says they paid $20 million. I'd
provide a link but I'm too lazy to go search for it again.
sander wrote:
How much did Logitech pay for Slim Devices?
The press release is here:
http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/172/2763
Which says: $20 million in cash plus a possible performance-based
payment, tied to reaching certain future revenue targets.
sander wrote:
Could Slim Devices have
+1 squeezeboxes appeared in at least 2 large nationwide retail store
chains here in Sweden , I guess slimdevices would never had the
organisation for that , my radio is for example bought in a store 1,5 km
from my home .
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