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| solace
Jul 13 (2009) 11:39AM | This is the 1st native mac application since the earliest soundblaster live! for mac http://www.google.com.sg/search?q=soundblaster+live+for+mac&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a |
| Zensen
Jul 13 (2009) 12:23PM  | you may very well see the zii products being supported a lot better on the apple platform than in the past with the zen line of products. I wonder if there's an option to bundle it with that wireless receiver... the fact it says itunes does that mean its only for use with itunes? Then it mentions something about the jukebox? what I don't get is if there's a wireless receiver for the receiving speakers, couldn't you just get a program that transmits your music from your pc/mac... unless im missing something here? Modern desktops/laptops come with wifi anyways... [ edited Jul 13 (2009) 12:28PM ] |
| solace
Jul 13 (2009) 12:30PM | i guess you need a wireless receiver, be it standalone unit or like the T20W which has the integrated receiver unit. The itunes branding is just something that Creative wants to ride onto. You can probably stream music both through a hard wired output or wireless with iTunes or other 3rd party application. The same goes for the PC platform. The jukebox is nifty windows gadget from the way it looks. I could be wrong though |
| solace
Jul 13 (2009) 12:35PM | Wireless streaming through wifi or bluetooth induces latency and requires audio streams to be compressed heavily. Creative's solution is to use a proprietary 2.4GHz RF baseband chip to handle wireless transmission which should deliver cleaner and glitchless audio streaming |
| Sylencer
Jul 13 (2009) 06:59PM  | In the age of wireless media centers and super-speed internet no one needs to compress their audio, unless you're talking 500+kbps audio, which is rare, unless you rip lossless (which the general public does not..) |
| gjr5017
Jul 13 (2009) 10:03PM  | If you rip lossless...you damn sure aren't using X-Fi that's for sure.....or wireless streaming for that matter. [ edited Jul 13 (2009) 10:03PM ] |
| ssjmichael
Jul 14 (2009) 02:13AM  | Interesting idea, but I'm not sure how many people will want to buy it at $99, plus the cost of the speakers. I wonder how come they ditched the initial X-Fi logo and name for just a Soundblaster one? The device still supports X-Fi according to the demo. Makes me wonder if Creative is stray away from the X-Fi branding and simply incorporating it into their products as the sound enhancement that it is (i.e. like SRS WOW) [ edited Jul 14 (2009) 02:16AM ] |
| kingone
Jul 14 (2009) 10:05AM  | I agree with Michael. The Sound Blaster branding is much much stronger than X-Fi. The software acceleration X-Fi effect in some sound cards and of coz the ZEN X-Fi really killed the brand. If Creative is really serious about the wireless thing, they should push other more wireless speakers or make these stuff cheap. I don't really think people will pay $200 for this system (the wireless transmitter plus receiver/speaker), people will simply turn to Sonos or others. |
| Danneh
Jul 15 (2009) 07:24AM  | Correct me if im wrong, but that thing on the end doesnt look like any normal mp3 player / program ive ever seen. Could that be a sneak peak of what Creative have in store for the Zii Egg in terms of GUI? D: Dan |
| ramakandra
Jul 15 (2009) 11:57AM  | ...yeh i noticed that... ...i dont know what it is... ...but those icons do look reminiscent of the ones on the old 3dlabs site... |
| kingone
Jul 15 (2009) 12:14PM | Are you guys referring to the Jukebox? |
| ramakandra
Jul 15 (2009) 12:16PM | ...the orange and black one yeh... ...if its new it may share design features with a new zii interface... |
| kingone
Jul 15 (2009) 12:46PM | It looks to me like some playlist management thingy ... looking at the song title and the icons. As I said, its weird that Creative never say much about it! =( |
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