<![CDATA[Transporter Video Tour - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Transporter Video Tour - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Transporter Video Tour]]> i love it that in the first video, it had 2 "left hand screen"s

king_of_fools

]]> <![CDATA[Transporter Video Tour]]> Note all the features (software, nav, visual, and remote) are standard on the regular Squeezebox too. Of course the physical hardware is beefed up, and I find myself saying, "Hey, nice knob!"

Sadly my original squeezebox can't be software upgraded to the new features.

jwardell

]]> <![CDATA[Transporter Video Tour]]> I'm a huge fan of the Squeezebox (I own two!) and the Transporter looks damn sweet. But it's hard to imagine plunking down $2k for one of these bad boys.

My question is, for that much money, why didn't they include the ability to do video streaming?

Lamont

]]> <![CDATA[Transporter Video Tour]]> The second video "is no longer available", and I can't hear him over the music in the last video.

This is really impressive. A PC is a hostile environment for a sound card, which rules out a Mac Mini or HTPC for serious listening. There are dedicated media servers with audiophile pretensions but I don't want to hear a hard drive whirring away, and you feel stupid a few years after paying $4000 for a music server with a mighty 80GB of storage.

Instead, buy Slim devices and put your music on a cheap network drive in the garage. Their SlimServer software is open source and hence is available for hacked versions of most network drives.

skierpage

]]> <![CDATA[Transporter Video Tour]]> I'm having trouble affording a Squeezebox, I can't even pretend this is possible.

Tho, I really like the idea of there being controls on the device.

The last time I tried the SlimServer I wasn't exactly blown away by it. The web interface was ugly as hell. Once Songbird starts to stablize, I think it and the SlimServer could make a interesting pair. Songbird making a nice (humane) frontend for SlimServer.

WiwiJumbo

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