TheLastMan;603560 Wrote: > They always keep their roadmap very close to their chest until a product > is almost ready for market. What we don't know is how successful the > Squeezebox line is and whether Logitech consider it financially viable > to extend the range further. It is a pretty "niche" product so that > could be a major limiting factor. > > The obvious move would be to extend the use of SqueezeOS (used in the > Radio and Touch) across the range together with more powerful > processors and DACs. This permits the use of the colour and touch > screens as well as "native" support for a broader range of file types > and at higher bit-rates which will reduce the need for the SqueezeBox > Server to transcode and/or down-sample. > > Obvious developments would be: > > 1. Boom v2 with Radio-like colour screen > 2. Duet v2 with more capable Receiver with the processing power of the > Touch and an improved Controller with a bigger screen. > > I doubt they would want to make the Boom bigger, part of its attraction > is its portability and big sound from a small device. > > Longer shots would be: > > 3. A SqueezeBox badged "server" - a "headless" mini PC or NAS offering > full support for the SB clients "out of the box". I have been hoping > for this ever since I bought my Duet in 2008! > 4. A high quality amplified, but speaker-less, player more in the line > of the products supplied by Sonos, but with the Touch screen. > > These last two would be a major departure from their current ethos > which is to supply the simple network client hardware and let the open > source and add-on community do the rest. Then again the Boom and Radio > were a departure from this so who knows? > > What do others think?
I can definitely see #1 - only a matter of time. For #2, package an updated controller with a Touch - but they'd have to get the controller headphone setup working consistently. #3 and #4 seem a bit off target considering their past direction. How about a #5, as mentioned above I can see a market for a larger Boom. Certainly several other companies have gone that way. I think also #6 might be coming at some point - a Squeeze device integrated with their new Google TV device. All in one multimedia. -- eganders ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eganders's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=25846 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84894 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
