atrocity;439598 Wrote: > "HDX 1000 uses the Networked Media Tank (NMT) middleware provided by > Syabas, which is a established middleware company". > > I've got a Popcorn Hour, which is also using the Syabas > middleware...it's nice enough, but it's not particularly stable (I'm > using an older firmware, because the newer ones are even less stable), > can't play DTS FLACs and isn't gapless. Reliability-wise, a Squeezebox > is 100 and a Popcorn Hour is 50. > > Maybe the HDX1000 is better, but I wouldn't count on it.
As an early adopter of the Duet, I don't exactly regard the Duet as a rock of stability, so if Squeeze is 100, and Popcorn 50, I wont hold out too much hope for me ever seeing a picture out of the HDX..... The point that this raises is that as audio / video delivery devices turn more and more into fully fledged computers, then the pricing is becoming more and more computer like. It is interesting that the high end audio firms with the resources to develop equipment of this type (notably Naim and Meridian) are moving to offer streaming product, but trying to defend their price points. When 99% of the active devices in the box are digital, all of the functionality is software driven, and only the DAC and subsequent filters and line drive circuitry are analogue (and can justify the audio high end 'hocus pocus' premium) what does this do to the overall pricing of the box? I guess we shall see. -- Andy8421 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andy8421's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16846 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64706 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
