have you guys seen the apple TV? for $99 you have a simple, easy to use piece of hardware that can stream audio and video digitally. your ipod and/or iphone can control it as soon as its plugged in, or use the tiny 3 button remote that comes with it.
what does logitech have to compete with that? SBS? the revue? this is the problem. logitech solutions have basically one selling point: "do you hate apple? then use us." yes, i like the HQ audio things, and of course SBS is better in many ways than itunes, but how many people care about that? for most people, (not me, but most others) itunes sounds and acts fine. how many also want some kind of video for their money? and we saw what a gigantic thud flop the revue was, and not surprising given the money involved. i think logitech needs to really reduce the cost of the hardware first of all. and secondly, the hardware ought to support DLNA, so you can use other stuff besides SBS, like WMP for example. its getting harder and harder to justify going the slim way. it is positioned, as far as i can tell, only for audiophiles who hate apple, and out of those, only those audiophiles for who other easier, cheaper solutions aren't good enough. did i mention video? obviously they have clue about this, as the coming transition to LMS is slated to finally, finally include DLNA in the server, as well as some (planned anyway) video support. but talk bout coming late to the party. imo, the current hardware is too expensive, too poorly thought out, and not capable of sustaining slim as things quickly evolve around them. for now, i am avoiding the apple universe, and other competing solutions to SBS have their own drawbacks and so on that don't yet overcome my investment in slim, but if someone came out with say, a $99 product that wasn't apple, that let me use whatever software i want to send audio or video to it, to play on my stereo or whatever, i'd dump slim in a second. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & droid (my home) / duet & ipeng (parents' home) - sbs 7.5.5b - win7 & xp pro sp3 ie9 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz, 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 49k+ mp3/flac ::VOTE FOR 'BUG 15604' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15604)!!!:: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88170 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
