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On 5 Feb 2010, at 03:47, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 13:55 +0000, James wrote: |
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>> Hello Folks, |
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>> In a previous thread I was curious about DLNA and anyone's |
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>> experiences |
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>> with it. DLNA is definitely a new MicroSoft Infection! |
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>> As it turns out, a very bright (savant) EE friend of mine shared |
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>> his recent |
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>> experience with DLNA: |
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>> QUOTE: |
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> [interesting story] |
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>> end rant. |
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>> END/QUOTE |
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> I just Don't Get It(TM). |
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> Being an embedded programmer, it is so friggin cheap and easy to chuck |
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> on a TTL-USB chip with drivers available for just about anything. |
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> Then |
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> you have usb-serial (or plain old serial if you want). Plonk your own |
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> version of a tiny binary protocol on it an voila! |
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I'm extremely dubious of the alleged Microsoft-only compatibility. |
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James has failed so far to adequately answer the suggestion that |
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*surely* the amp is *controlled* by a web-browser interface. Surely |
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the point of the web-browser integration is so that the user can |
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program the front-panel keys and the list of favourite radio-stations. |
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Whilst I have seen embedded devices (Dell DRAC4) that utilise Windows- |
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only components, there was a purpose for doing so and I have seen many |
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more (Dell RAC in the PowerEdge 2650, home NAS devices, 2 x KVM-IP of |
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different manufacturers) that don't. Why should the programmer make |
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his own life more difficult for no good reason. |
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I could imagine that a tuner might enable one to stream audio to a |
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laptop using DLNA or a Windows plug-in, but in many cases one could |
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just stream internet radio directly to the laptop. |
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Since we don't know for sure what the purpose of the web-browser |
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integration is, it's impossible to even guess if it might be MS-only. |
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Like I say, I'm imagining it _only to be for setting up_ the tuner's |
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advanced functions, but the way to find out would be to talk to |
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someone who has one (on, say, the AV Forums messageboards) or to try it. |
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Pointless speculation is pointless. |
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Stroller. |
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