31-Jul-2014, 22:42
(31-Jul-2014, 22:32)GuillaumeB Wrote: I suppose what I'm trying to say is that I cannot imagine Devialet will enable UPnP without bringing out a robust control point of their own. And I think this is quite a substantial undertaking, based on the experience of all the other manufacturers in this field. I therefore don't see this as too likely.
Nor should they. But I don't see the UPnP support very likely either, but for very different reasons. Devialet is a lot about software, they seem to have very skilled engineers working for them and they put a lot of effort in producing quality software. They are not quite there yet and their software is continuously evolving, which is good.
The problem is, they have selected their path with streaming and they may not want to back down or give in to more standard methods of streaming. They claim their way is superior and they want to stick with that. Which is fine, in a way.
It's just too bad that they have selected the you should listen to music with a laptop on your lap/you should run back and fort between a computer and your hifi to select the music you want to play/you can only stream form Windows or Mac/why not distract yourself with a computer while listening -way that I'm not personally a huge fan of.
Luckily I can still use an external streamer. It does chip a way some of the one -box-solution awesomeness, but what can you do.
