[slim] New Products

2008-12-20 Thread Labarum
Logitech will be no different to other manufacturers: they don't announce new products till they announce new products. But rumours? Any rumours? What would I want? I am generally very happy with my SB3 playing into a Beresford DAC directly driving an updated Quad 405-2, but would like to play

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2008-12-20 Thread amcluesent
Do I have a chance? Surely Logitech have the audio-only options covered well enough. But they've nothing in the video market... -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286

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2008-12-20 Thread bonze
You answered your own question in the first sentence. If there was a rumour or small announcementette of a future product, it would kill off part of the current market. -- bonze TranquilPC T2-WHS-A3 - SqueezeCenter Version: 7.3.1 - 24382 3 x wireless SB3 + a Duet

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2008-12-20 Thread Mnyb
History lesson :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Effect this is dreaded by all company's I assume somebody will put an axe to the server hosting this forum 0.0001 seconds after any rumors occur. -- Mnyb Mnyb's

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2008-12-20 Thread Dogberry2
I'd be happy to start a rumor: A future product will be a set of high-quality headphones with a receiver built in, controllable (of course) via the SBC or browser interface. Yes, I know you can get this now by using the SBC itself with the headphone jack, but it means monopolizing the controller,

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2008-12-20 Thread Pat Farrell
bonze wrote: You answered your own question in the first sentence. If there was a rumour or small announcementette of a future product, it would kill off part of the current market. Nearly everyone remembers Osborne Computers. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/

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2008-12-20 Thread Goodsounds
Do I have a chance? My guess - no. As for Osborne, I remember them as one of the first companies in Silicon Valley that seemingly spent as much attention on hype as on its products. Both efforts failed, independently and together. In a town with too many humorless engineers, people viewed them

Re: [slim] New products please!

2007-11-16 Thread Fifer
Solvason-Pastuch;243043 Wrote: How about something that just plain works, without the neverending nightly updates and techie tweaking. I AM an electrical engineer and I have reached the point where I think a multi-CD player would work much better. What 'doesn't plain work' in the

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2007-11-16 Thread Peter
the point where I think a multi-CD player would work much better. - Original Message - From: SoftPhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:02 PM Subject: [slim] New products please! Hi there, this is my first post but i have been

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2007-11-16 Thread slimpy
Solvason-Pastuch;243043 Wrote: How about something that just plain works, without the neverending nightly updates and techie tweaking. I AM an electrical engineer and I have reached the point where I think a multi-CD player would work much better. If you stopped the ranting for once

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2007-11-16 Thread aubuti
Solvason-Pastuch;243043 Wrote: How about something that just plain works, without the neverending nightly updates and techie tweaking. I AM an electrical engineer and I have reached the point where I think a multi-CD player would work much better. The nightlies are *pre-release* software.

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2007-11-16 Thread Rick B .
Solvason-Pastuch;243043 Wrote: How about something that just plain works, without the neverending nightly updates and techie tweaking. I AM an electrical engineer and I have reached the point where I think a multi-CD player would work much better. QUOTE] I'm very happy with my SB.

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2007-11-16 Thread Kevin O. Lepard
How about something that just plain works, without the neverending nightly updates and techie tweaking. I AM an electrical engineer and I have reached the point where I think a multi-CD player would work much better. Nightlies aren't for regular use. If they address a problem you actually

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2007-11-15 Thread cliveb
SoftPhill;242700 Wrote: Thanks for the replies. I take your point on product release dates, probably not that sensible but it does feel like it's been a while since the merge and i would have expected something by now. As a beta testeer for the Jive handset, my impression is that it's all

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2007-11-15 Thread Solvason-Pastuch
@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:02 PM Subject: [slim] New products please! Hi there, this is my first post but i have been a squeezebox owner for a number of months now (have a couple). I think the system is great and the forums invaluable but i have found myself

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2007-11-14 Thread SoftPhill
Thanks for the replies. I take your point on product release dates, probably not that sensible but it does feel like it's been a while since the merge and i would have expected something by now. If they were gunning for some kind of Christmas offering it would have been prudent to hype it up a

[slim] New products please!

2007-11-13 Thread SoftPhill
Hi there, this is my first post but i have been a squeezebox owner for a number of months now (have a couple). I think the system is great and the forums invaluable but i have found myself asking this question for quite a bit: When will we see something new? I am really excited to expand my

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2007-11-13 Thread Mark Lanctot
Logitech does not comment on product release dates. SC7 will be soon. There was talk of releasing it in November but fortunately the development team seems more interested in getting things working properly rather than slavishly obeying some prearranged release date. However some bugs have

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2007-11-13 Thread Pat Farrell
SoftPhill wrote: When will we see something new? Ever since Osborne computers shot themselves in the foot with early annoucements, smart firms do not mention what is coming. SlimDevices and LogiTech never comment about futures. Is there any news out there about how long i will have to wait

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2007-11-13 Thread JJZolx
Pat Farrell;242482 Wrote: SoftPhill wrote: When will we see something new? Ever since Osborne computers shot themselves in the foot with early annoucements, smart firms do not mention what is coming. It happens every day, and by many very successful companies. Particularly in the tech

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2007-11-13 Thread oreillymj
2002 - Windows announce that Longhorn aka Vista will be ready in 2005. Still isn't finished. -- oreillymj oreillymj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=699 View this thread:

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2007-11-13 Thread Pat Farrell
JJZolx wrote: It happens every day, and by many very successful companies. Particularly in the tech and consumer electronics industries. You've never seen Cisco announce an new line of routers six months before they're physically available? Never seen speakers or audio components at

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2007-11-13 Thread Michael Herger
It happens every day, and by many very successful companies. Particularly in the tech and consumer electronics industries. Oh, I remember that company in Redmond announcing Windows 4.0 about five years before it was released as version 95... Michael

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2007-11-13 Thread thomsens
Michael Herger;242501 Wrote: It happens every day, and by many very successful companies. Particularly in the tech and consumer electronics industries. Oh, I remember that company in Redmond announcing Windows 4.0 about five years before it was released as version 95... Michael As