iboum;495601 Wrote: > Err, yes it is! > > I for one use a Media Player (Xtreamer) for both audio and video. Oh, > and internet radio, and watching Youtube, and if I wanted I could also > view photos.. > > The usual place people want to listen to music is the living room. Most > people have the TV and Hi-Fi in close proximity. It makes complete sense > to have one box connected to both and serving all media. > > Not sure about the old and new world. I'm in the UK, what does that > make me?! > I have to agree with pippin, music and video is two totally different things. People that only have a single Squeezebox in the living room might think it's somewhat similar. However, when I got my second Squeezebox I started to see a clear difference between them. It's really a big advantage to be able to play music in any room in the house and have full access to the central library. You are forgetting about devices like the Boom or Radio that doesn't need a separate HiFi system to work.
Video is totally different, especially if you have a media center solution like Tivo or MythTV who handle all the recording. In this case you really only watch TV when you want to and when you do it you watch something you like to watch. I've more or less stopped having the TV on as a background while I'm doing something else, it doesn't make sense when you can select something you really want to see. However, there is a video use case that makes sense together with music and that's watching music videos. A YouTube client which you can used to preview new music before buying it would be a great enhancement to the Squeezebox line, especially since Spotify doesn't seem to be something that Logitech focus on. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
