Re:$300?! (Score 1)

Correction!

What? No networking? It had oodles of networking.

More than in your little finger.. It had analog, and ethernet and lots of nice audio plugs and all sorts of stuff. You could go surf your samba-compatable share if you wished: read: you can access windows! ACK! you don't say!

But the reason why it failed was price.. No one wanted to spend 1k on the thing. It did a lot but was way too expensive.

People didn't realize it was no-strings-attached though. There was no content deal, tricky fine print that bound you to some contract. It was a TV/Stereo ready appliance that did one thing well: Store and manage and play MP3 and RA if you had them.

What you say? Mp3? Oh yea.. RA/RV was just a feature after all, RealNetworks made it, so what did you expect WMA? Oh geez wait, ther's HELIX now so what does that mean. Wake UP! OGG? Jump in!

Digital Music

The move to the living room isn't Nobel application material. It's just that the paradigm shift of DIGITAL music to the living room is quite amazing force to reckon with. Yea it is.

Ok lets review:

• idec was a good product, just way too expensive and limited to just MP3 and RealMedia. fine.
• but it could be networked like a banshee and had all the guts of a fine PC for that money..
• Oh did I mention you could hack it to smithereens: hack your idec

That's the power of cheese.