Streamers with screens

[Berwhale]

Who is the 'product oner' here, Sonos or the person who bought their product? Other examples are 'smart' TV manufacturers that fail to keep their OS up to date, so features that it was sold as having no longer work. Or Sony removing linux from the PS2. Or Spotify bricking the Car Thing. Or Google bricking various Nest products. The list goes on. It's one reason I prefer to stick to free software - LMS is still going after a corporate buyout, discontinuation of the product and finally corporate dropping of the software.

What is a Product Owner?

As a member of the Scrum Team, the Product Owner provides clarity to the team about a product’s vision and goal. All work is derived and prioritized based on the Product Goal in order to deliver value to all stakeholders including those within their organization and all users both inside and out.

www.scrum.org

But in reality...

268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

In praise of knowing the requirements before you start cranking out code

www.theregister.com

 

[Timcognito]

I think all issues above led to Logitech bailing on its universal remote. Keeping up with hundreds of companies hiding secrets from each other and new ones being added weekly for remotes that sold starting at $70 was a losing proposition. I think Sonos and Bluesound have many issues integrating all the streaming services and outside device compatibility with very few universal standards.

 

[HoweSound]

I mostly use my phone or tablet to control my Eversolo DMP A6, but I like the album cover display and I'm very fond of my VU meter eye candy.

 

[ehabheikal]

It's the bling. One shows off what is being played to others in a rack or on a credenza. I bought a dedicated Samsung 10" Android tablet for $99 for music, and have not looked back, finding everything on decent sized screen.. The phone fits in my pocket and is used away from home when it comes to music.

I have same setup with wiim and through its trigger and a few settings the tablet would turn on and off with music and shows what is playing.

 

[KellenVancouver]

Yes, kind of gimmicky, but personally I like it (and I'm not normally into bling). Like when a car comes with a sliding sun roof -- adds a degree of functionality, but after the novelty wears off not used that much, though always pleasurable when it does get used.

 

[tom_tom]

Some years ago I had streamer from Onkyo with little screen. One of my favorite options was not to use phone. Just take remote and start streaming. Right now I'm also using this on Wiim Pro Plus. Just click preset button on remote and it starts my playlist. I'm planing to upgrade to streamer with screen but just to see whats playing right now, so actually i need a screen , not a touchscreen.

 

[KellenVancouver]

Interesting to read all these perspectives. Consumers drive the market, and my sense is they're popular enough with buyers that touchscreens are going to become fairly standard as we move into the future. I'm sitting on a $2k budget and still trying to decide which streamer to get. Don't need dac/pre-amp features, just streamer. My intuition is telling me to be patient as the market expands and matures. Otherwise the A8 beckons...

 

[Fahzz]

I didn't think I needed/wanted a screen, until I found out I could add a touch screen to my system for only $57.00. I don't use the touch functions often, but having the screen to tell me what's playing from across the room is great, especially when I'm playing new stuff from Qobuz.
(It also looks cool.)

 

[gwing]

What is a Product Owner?

As a member of the Scrum Team, the Product Owner provides clarity to the team about a product’s vision and goal. All work is derived and prioritized based on the Product Goal in order to deliver value to all stakeholders including those within their organization and all users both inside and out.

www.scrum.org

But in reality...

268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

In praise of knowing the requirements before you start cranking out code

www.theregister.com

To be fair the scrummies tout that as an advantage i.e. projects fail early and fail hard rather than go on soaking up time and money until the project finally fails later at much greater cost or 'succeeds' producing something that isn't actually wanted.

Eeek! Did I say something favourable abut Agile?? Don't tell the folks at work or I'll never be allowed to forget it

 

[Berwhale]

To be fair the scrummies tout that as an advantage i.e. projects fail early and fail hard rather than go on soaking up time and money until the project finally fails later at much greater cost or 'succeeds' producing something that isn't actually wanted.

Eeek! Did I say something favourable abut Agile?? Don't tell the folks at work or I'll never be allowed to forget it

I think a properly trained Scrum Master would know that 'Agile Project' is an oxymoron (at least that's what I was taught 10 years ago by this dude... https://www.craiglarman.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page)

 

[Graham849]

An interesting cell phone size PC with built in screen that could store library and use JRiver, foobar2000 etc to play it via DAC / Bluetooth/ inbuilt speakers/ audio jack/ wifi. Nifty!

Meenhong JX5 Intel N100 mini PC looks like a (thick) smartphone with a 5.5-inch touchscreen display - CNX Software

Meenhong JX5 is another Intel N100 mini PC with an integrated touchscreen display, but the 5.5-inch Full HD LCD used in this smartphone-like model is even

www.cnx-software.com