NTFS (not old FAT32) which was introduced in 1993 (but I'm sure you were already aware about that... )

You may have only been using them for one year, but wait until ten years down the line! The platter bearings will seize up and you'll be left with a slower, eventually dead drive. Not what B&O customers want from a BeoSound 5. Admittedly the hard drive is relatively easy to swap in the BeoSound 5, but B&O would want to minimize this as much as possible.

Either way, they may bring out a larger size yet, we do not know...

Come on... Disks in a server farm are used a lot more intensively that your 2 hours a day Beomaster 5... And, it is not B&O's fault here, but I doubt the BS5 will make sense in 10 years time!

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Bear in mind the BeoSound 5 a software platform with a beautifully designed/built controller. As it stands at present, no it may not be the most up-to-date product in 10 years time, but it's something B&O can develop. I can't see that music is going to require more processing power than the BeoSound 5 currently has...

I dont think the pricessing power for music will be the challenge. I think keeping the software up to date to manage the content will be.

And some point sales will level of and B&O will stop updating it. Then the days are counted. For playing music probably the current beomedia is fine for the so i can follow your argument.

I think it depends a bit how the whole digital world develops. That apple is pushing DRM free music is a very good thing. If B&O does not or stop integrating with Itunes I think they won't sell this. Its omnipresent and nobody would maintain 2 libraries.

Agreed! I do hope a higher form of integration is offered with iTunes. Some kind of automatic discrete syncing would be good...