For those of you not enamoured with the Beosound 8, B&O are releasing the iPort which is made by Sonance. This small device allows your iPod or iPhone to be controlled using your Beo4 and on screen displays anywhere in the house. (You clearly need the linked TV to be in view!) It uses PUC software to control the device. Maybe useful for a second home so you can use the iPod as a mini server.
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Another iPod dock!
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Thanks sheep! Interesting!
Thanks for sharing, sheep. 🤒 Keep us posted!
Yes, please keep us posted!
The Sonance site reveals they've already have had the docks for a while:
IR
IR+RS232 (like so many home "automation" systems)
IR+video output for TV hookup
The question is: will we just get a special Beo4-compatible IR eye version (like Lutron does for B&O)... or will we require a B&O Gateway that can communicate via RS232 to the dock?
Obviously the second option is a brain-dead non-starter for many people.
Interesting yes, but who would buy one of theese now that Apple has introduced airplay in IOS 4.2. ? If you instead buy a cheaper (almost for certain) apple tv, you can stream music, videos and pictures from your iphone to the tv without having to dock it somewhere...
/Ehlerz
The question is: will we just get a special Beo4-compatible IR eye version (like Lutron does for B&O)... or will we require a B&O Gateway that can communicate via RS232 to the dock?
Obviously the second option is a brain-dead non-starter for many people.
The IPort dock comes with IR connection, so you simply connect a wire from your IR out on your B&O equipment to the IR in on the IPort.
B&O PUC is already available.
/Ehlerz
The UK price for the
Works well even plays videos!
Would be nice to have a component video pass through with composite conversion then we could modulate ie send it around analogue links.
This is what I have wanted for so long - will it be available in the dealers - there probably is a big market for this - well for those us that have Avants and older TV's that can't easily integrate with Apple TV
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