From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Rich"  wrote:
>     I'm particularly interested in you supporting your claim "Apple is
>so far ahead of the Wintel world in this space that it isn't funny".  I
>suspect you can't.  This is likely typical mike miller noise.

I've been looking at the solutions available with the condition that they
have to be usable by my young children and non-technical spouse. Once I
stopped looking at it from a computing viewpoint and started looking at it
from an appliance viewpoint, I realised Mike is right - who cares what's
under the lid? It all plugs together and works intuitively, with no exposed
rough edges.

Before anyone mentions Linux, there's one problem: I'd have to build it, I
can't buy it from my local tech store and plug it in.

Calling the Apple solution proprietary and closed standards may have some
validity, but it applies equally to Windows XP MCE. Again, like Mike, I
feel Apple is ahead in that their interoperability is better with regards
to streaming media to other playback devices while still retaining DRM.

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Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
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