Then buy a Transporter? The "non-mass market" SqueezeBox? :) The mass market helps keep your Touch at a reasonable price. Take away it's mass market appeal and your very limited market for such a device would quadruple the price for the same hardware.
Just as the "mass market" wants USB and networking on their HDTV's. For those that don't want these features, just ignore them and concentrate on the features important to you (picture quality? price? number/type of inputs?). But even those that ignore those "added" features benefit from the broader appeal of those features by sharing in the devices lower unit cost. My father still laments that he can't buy a car with "just an AM radio". He doesn't listen to FM, nor does he have CD's or a digital music collection, nor does he use sat radio or HD radio. He just wants the type of radio with mechanical push buttons he had in his 1956 VW Bug. Every new car, the same complaint. But then every time I tell him "pops, I've told you, I can have my buddy retrofit an actual AM-only old school radio for $120, just say when" he won't cough up the dough. :) Don't even get my dad started on cell phones and how some of their functionality is different from his land line phone. UGH! Buy and enjoy your mass-market Touch, utilizing only the features & functions you desire, ignoring all those you don't want. In fact, if you have any trouble eliminating (hiding) all of the menu items you won't use, just ask in here. ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95617 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
