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This may or may not be germane, but what the fuck have you seen that stupid Sony remote control?
by jfb 16y ago
This may or may not be germane, but what the fuck have you seen that stupid Sony remote control?
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoThat's actually one of the bits I like best of the system (not actually used one, but have thought about using my XBMC setup with a similar unit). I'm not really impressed by a response that says "we've removed all the buttons from your remote, look how nice it is, by the way, we also removed all the related functionality too". Maybe, just maybe, if competitors could achieve 80% of the functionality with 20% of the buttons, then that would be something to crow about. But solving 20% of the problem isn't enough. It just means you now have at least two remotes (one for live sports, one for digitally delivered TV shows etc.) which multiplies complexity, but Apple (or whoever) only takes credit/blame for part of the problem/solution and pretends the rest doesn't exist. It's not someone elses problem, it's my problem and Google is to their credit at least trying to solve it. Pass-through HDMI alone is a genius idea that would make my homebrew XBMC solution a great deal better.
- jfb 16y agoI'll believe pass-through HDMI when I see it. HDMI anything is a total pig's breakfast, even today -- thanks, HDCP, for not letting me plug my PERFECTLY HDCP COMPLIANT TV into my PERFECTLY HDCP COMPLIANT SCALER via DVI. It's enough to drive one to books.