Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="foxbenw" data-source="post: 980365" data-attributes="member: 115475">With MP2 coming at some point, the only thing that is really in danger short term is the windows client. Personally i will continue to store media until streaming is high enough quality to replace my blurays and i can be confident that i will be able to watch a program on-demand that i would otherwise have recorded.&nbsp;So rather than worrying about MP overall, i'd just say that the windows client may become less relevant (for attracting new users) and that MPExtended and transcoding will start to take on more importance. (Although with wireless ac i am also hoping to be able to stream a bluray over wifi).&nbsp;Therefore a windows RT client IS important, and in some ways maybe more than the desktop client. Except that the priority should go to developing android and ios clients first because hardly anyone has an RT device. AMPdroid is a great start - i had a play with it on my wife's nexus - but is clearly nowhere near the functionality and slickness of the main client.&nbsp;It will be interesting to see what happens with google tv functionality over the coming year or so, and what MS will do with 'xbox tv' or whatever it will call it (i think that is still an assumption but they obviously will).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="foxbenw, post: 980365, member: 115475"] With MP2 coming at some point, the only thing that is really in danger short term is the windows client. Personally i will continue to store media until streaming is high enough quality to replace my blurays and i can be confident that i will be able to watch a program on-demand that i would otherwise have recorded. So rather than worrying about MP overall, i'd just say that the windows client may become less relevant (for attracting new users) and that MPExtended and transcoding will start to take on more importance. (Although with wireless ac i am also hoping to be able to stream a bluray over wifi). Therefore a windows RT client IS important, and in some ways maybe more than the desktop client. Except that the priority should go to developing android and ios clients first because hardly anyone has an RT device. AMPdroid is a great start - i had a play with it on my wife's nexus - but is clearly nowhere near the functionality and slickness of the main client. It will be interesting to see what happens with google tv functionality over the coming year or so, and what MS will do with 'xbox tv' or whatever it will call it (i think that is still an assumption but they obviously will). [/QUOTE]

Verification