Certainly glad to see another serious and experienced competitor uping the ante a bit, in both form and function. Sexy looking player too.
That said, Olive One is definitely following more closely to the Sonos model. I looked into Olive and the (then) very similar Yamaha MisicCast system years ago prior to coming to SqueezeBox. Back then both were way over priced and very limited in features and customization. Looks like the Olive One is a nice step in the right direction. But she ain't no SqueezeBox. ;) My personal reservations: - don't need a player with built in amps (i.e. SB3 or Touch) - don't need another hard drive for my music collection (music must reside on the Olive HDD as additional hardware purchase, unless you want limited DLNA playback) - don't need a cloud service in place of my existing PC HDD, but nice to offer it indeed, being third party Google cloud to boot - price, I'd bet by release date the prices might be much higher (based on previous Olive pricing comparisons) - need clarification on "playing same music on multiple players", likely is true Sync, but I'd like that confirmed - need clarification on the Miracast (whatever that is)? i.e. TV must support Miracast to utilize DLNA functions (pics, videos, music)? I think a smart move for Olive is to add an additional "Touch" like player where they take their existing player, remove the amps, and add the digital outs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97539 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
