What really burns me is that I already own a solution: The Sansa Connect. It has everything it needs, hardware wise. It will even stream internet radio. But, Sansa obsoleted it, and won’t allow users the ability to update to custom firmware via Rockbox. Sandisk really missed the boat on this one. They *could* have modified the firmware to allow streaming of Shoutcast stations, and just kept right on selling the things.

Ok, that’s enough of a rant.

Hans

furthermore, i suspect most people just don’t care to do a lot of this. why stream when you have an iPod (or other) that you can just carry around and are familiar with? printing is usually pointless, i’d hope, but i realize a lot of people likely print their email or website for whatever stupid reason. most people buy dvds (or rent). if you have a dvd, it’s hardly worthwhile to rip it to a media center. just pop it in the dvd player.

for people stuck using “physical” media, there seems little value to a network. i suspect that most people just don’t need it.

“uh, yes.” (ok somewhat tech savy) ;)

There is some much tech out there that people don’t know about. Sonos sounds like a great thing, but who has heard of it?

I don’t think that prince is that much of an issue in the long term. Think how many people buy $4000 TVs when the economy is good.

I think the issue is marketing.