Pale Blue Ego;414372 Wrote: > Audio streaming is mature technology. Slim largely solved it with the > SB2/SB3 and everything since then is an enhancement of that technology. > Tell me, what new HARDWARE features are you clamoring for that would > make you want to replace your current SB3/Duet/Boom with another > Squeezebox audio-only player? I'm pretty darn happy with my FIVE > Squeezeboxes and unwilling to spend $2000 on a Transporter. So, even > though I'm an extremely loyal Squeeze fan, there's nothing for me to > buy. > > Ignoring video will eventually kill the Squeezebox. The current family > of Networked Media Tanks costs LESS than the Squeezebox and includes > playback of many audio, video, and graphics formats including hi-def > video with multichannel audio. > > The NMTs also offer some things Squeezebox fans have wanted for a LONG > time, like local storage - you can stick a 1TB hard drive in one of > these and take your whole library with you. NMTs do not require server > software, they can discover and index media files anywhere on the LAN. > Finally, they provide big-screen display of tag information and album > art. > > We're entering a new era of networked media playback. The next gen of > Blu-ray players and flat-screen TVs will include playback of audio and > video from anywhere on the LAN or the internet. Many of the current > Squeezebox features will be built in to commodity components. > > I myself have postponed a NMT purchase because I'm hoping Squeeze will > soon enter this market. But I can't wait any longer as I have hundreds > of movies, homemade video projects, and TV episodes already loaded on my > server and the family is clamoring for a way to stream them to the home > theater. Flipping discs is getting old, and I have no way to play on > the big screen the many hi-def videos I have captured or created. > > I sure wish it was a SqueezeVideo I was ordering today. Instead it's > going to be the $219 HDX 1000. Sorry, Logitech.
This sounds very interesting. I'll need a full review if you get one. :) I don't really think that it would replace my SB3 as I like the simple and quick elegance of it. I think they would go side by side and I do have one hdmi port left on my receiver ( 2 if I get rid of my dvd player). Thanks for pointing this out, I had never heard of it. NR -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62047 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
