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In Reply to: RE: Finally Mac Mini Compared posted by dRRD on April 09, 2012 at 07:28:56
Galileo was wrong too:
"Galileo was accused of being a heretic, a person who opposed Church teachings. Galileo was cleared of charges of heresy, but was told that he should no longer publicly state his belief that Earth moved around the Sun."
I would say that I am not in bad company.
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Music is the Bridge between Heaven and Earth - 音楽は天国と地球のかけ橋
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We get the point. Remember this is a computer forum. Many inmates enjoy using a computer as a front end.
Obviously you have been unable to "connect" with this group for proclamation of Messiah.
I'm all for observation and science over faith :) I find computers make great (data) sources, not so great as music sources for all sorts of reasons but that's why I plug a good DAC in.
I'm going to stick my neck out on this....
I actually see Bluetooth as taking over from USB. The makers of BT are continuously improving the technology with regards to trasmitting lossless audio, even high rez. Furthermre, from a business stand-point this Computer-audio 'streamers' trend is wide open for implementation of technilogical advances. Cutting wires has always been the mantra for technology, this goes back to wireless phones, wireless remotes and so on...so it is inevitable that digital transmission will be wireless too. To this end, profits [the motivator for all things] will drive BT to fill this need. As we all know, technology moves quickly so I don't think we will have to wait 10 years...
Not only that, but as of this year there are probably nearly 100 variations of streamers on the market that seek to take the place of computers. Its only a matter of time before the ergonomics and features are stream-lined to suit consumers needs, then down come the prices. This will mark the end of Computers as front-ends as we know it.
Dynobots Audio
Music is the Bridge between Heaven and Earth - 音楽は天国と地球のかけ橋
No reason at all why it shouldn't work perfectly. There's also no reason why a 'PC' couldn't look more like a USB memory stick, or a phone or a wrist-watch or whatever. I think it's only the people who can remember their PCs as big boxes in the corner that still tend to think of them as big boxes in the corner. It's all just data processing and communication though, you still need to convert it to something interesting.
What you say probably applies to audio, but not video.
These small media centre things are rubbish. One need a quad core with good graphics to do video really well.
A sexy Zotac dual core I bought with ATI graphics is crap when it comes to video quality and I don't understand how they can sell it as a media machine.
Point (or at least this thread) is that PCs used to be easily defined and easily recognised. Now where is the processing going on, where is the interaction? How are you going to define a PC? If you have a display or a DAC with lots of DSP that just needs to be networked then where is the PC? The discussions that go on here that one platform or transfer protocol is better than another is completely missing the point. You need as much processing as is necessary to turn data into HD video, you don't *need* a quad-core box with dedicated graphics.
Sorry, don't know whatyou are saying.
You are WRONG about quality video replay and rendering not requiring a powerful cpu and a high quality graphics card.
I thought I was pretty clear. You don't need a high power CPU and dedicated graphics if the PC is just streaming data. I don't need a high spec PC to get high quality audio from my DAC, data without dropouts will suffice. I'm pointing out the obvious which is that processing is not limited to the CPU or the motherboard or dedicated chipsets, it's also in the networked devices. The PC may well be contributing very little indeed.
I was not talking about the PC streaming video but driving it
It's OK I realise you didn't really get what I was on about.
Actually, there were a lot of abusive posts from MAC pushers 3-4 years ago when the subject was first raised here.
A typical one was 'Your PCs are no good for audio, buy a MAC and stick loads of RAM in and Use iTune (before all these wonder packages came in).
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