SimonMackay
08-19-2005, 05:58 PM
Hi all!
One thing that I wouldn't put past Philips to do is to help the "usual partners" (Grundig or Bang & Olufsen) out with a network media client. I have known of Philips helping them out with all sorts of consumer-electronics technology. Think of Philips helping B&O out by supplying "reference designs" platforms for CD and DVD players or supplying Grundig with a rebadged DCC deck as a way of getting Grundig to dabble with DCC. They even bought in to B&O when B&O were "in the red" as a way of sustaining the designer hi-fi name.
It is also worth knowing that the Philips iPronto remote control is one of the few universal remote controls that can work with B&O equipment.
What I suspect that could happen would be to see some of the Streamium network media receivers being sold also under the Grundig badge or the WACS-7000 wireless network music system being developed as a B&O piece of art. I also have suspected that B&O had some design input in to the WACS-7000 system owing to the styling of this system being like their Beosound Century.
With regards,
Simon Mackay
One thing that I wouldn't put past Philips to do is to help the "usual partners" (Grundig or Bang & Olufsen) out with a network media client. I have known of Philips helping them out with all sorts of consumer-electronics technology. Think of Philips helping B&O out by supplying "reference designs" platforms for CD and DVD players or supplying Grundig with a rebadged DCC deck as a way of getting Grundig to dabble with DCC. They even bought in to B&O when B&O were "in the red" as a way of sustaining the designer hi-fi name.
It is also worth knowing that the Philips iPronto remote control is one of the few universal remote controls that can work with B&O equipment.
What I suspect that could happen would be to see some of the Streamium network media receivers being sold also under the Grundig badge or the WACS-7000 wireless network music system being developed as a B&O piece of art. I also have suspected that B&O had some design input in to the WACS-7000 system owing to the styling of this system being like their Beosound Century.
With regards,
Simon Mackay