NOW Media Centre Poll WAS:Re: RE: Re: RE: Windows XP Media Center Edition Review

["BEN.MCCORMACK" <ben.mccormack@xxxxxxx>]

Mark

On the back of this could you set up a Poll?

Do you think that MS Media Centre will be sucessful?

Yes
No
The Media Concept will work but not the MS vision
Yes but not for at least 5 more years.

Ben

> > Gerard,
> >=20
> > For the last 15 years, UK consumers have been able to buy=20
> > separates audio systems from Richer Sounds for =A3300 that=20
> > sound way better than the "all in one" midi systems
from the=20
> > high-street multiples.
> >=20
> > Applying your standard of "device not as good as separate=20
> > devices", midi systems are, to use your term
"worthless".
> >=20
> > By your logic, midi systems will not sell in any numbers.
> >=20
> > The last time I looked, Richer Sounds had a far smaller=20
> > market share of the domestic music player space than Dixons,=20
> > Currys, Comet etc. Likewise, midi systems sell in far greater=20
> > numbers than separate amps.
> >=20
> > This might suggest that there is something wrong with your=20
> > model of consumer behaviour...
> To be fair Mark, there is something massively wrong with the example
you
> are using.
> When you have a seperates system or a midi system the end result is
> still the same; it produces sound. A midi system is NOT a converged
> device. It is combined device, something completely different.
> Read what I said again. "Convergence is all well and good but if
the
> converged device doesn't perform the job as well as the individual
> devices then what is the point?". When you produce a midi system
it
> still plays CDs, tapes etc in the same way as the seperates system
will
> (not talking quality here). The same can not be said for the Media
> Center.
> If we are talking about consumer behaviour, the most popular
electronic
> Christmas present for the past two years has been the DVD player. That
> means it doesn't really matter if the Media Centre can be used as one
> because many households already have one. And the ones that don't are
> NOT going to rush out and buy a =A3700 computer.
> Anyone want to take a sportman's bet with me that the XP Media Centre
> will NOT be as popular as Microsoft seem to think it will?
> G
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