yep!..and add Airfoil , and you can stream sound from and to any kind of source :-)

/Peter

I think the Ipad/Beo concept looks great. It's the wireless part  that seems the most logical.

Trip and other wifi naysayers - I don't get it. Wifi is not perfect but it works. I know people in NY highrises and it works. I know people in single family homes surrounded by lots of grass, and it works. The fact that B&O cannot make a wireless ML product that works, or that they can no longer make a wireless 2-way remote that works, well shame on them. I have two Ipod Touches that control an AppleTV and they just work. I listen to ATV music throughout the house on my Avant, BV8, BS3000, and 3 other (wired) ML rooms! It all just works. A lot B&O and little Apple here and there. Oh BTW my computer at work AND at home is Windows, so I'm no Apple fan boy. I can hear it already, "you're not the typical (read profitable) B&O customer. Ok, but that doesn't mean anything. Lots of companies died while serving their "typical" customers b/c they did not adopt simple technologies (perhaps like wifi). Ofcourse, I want B&O to thrive b/c I like most of their awesome products.

B&O we don't need or want geeky stuff to make wifi work. Promise. It just works (usually, kind of like some B&O priducts). So why downplay anything that's not invented here. Surely we know that's not the way to the future.

beo-ap wrote:

I think the Ipad/Beo concept looks great. It's the wireless part  that seems the most logical.

 

Trip and other wifi naysayers - I don't get it. Wifi is not perfect but it works. I know people in NY highrises and it works. I know people in single family homes surrounded by lots of grass, and it works. The fact that B&O cannot make a wireless ML product that works, or that they can no longer make a wireless 2-way remote that works, well shame on them. I have two Ipod Touches that control an AppleTV and they just work. I listen to ATV music throughout the house on my Avant, BV8, BS3000, and 3 other (wired) ML rooms! It all just works. A lot B&O and little Apple here and there. Oh BTW my computer at work AND at home is Windows, so I'm no Apple fan boy. I can hear it already, "you're not the typical (read profitable) B&O customer. Ok, but that doesn't mean anything. Lots of companies died while serving their "typical" customers b/c they did not adopt simple technologies (perhaps like wifi). Ofcourse, I want B&O to thrive b/c I like most of their awesome products.

B&O we don't need or want geeky stuff to make wifi work. Promise. It just works (usually, kind of like some B&O priducts). So why downplay anything that's not invented here. Surely we know that's not the way to the future.

Your personal experience is 1. Regardless of what you've heard from your friends, the total experience that yo've personally had with this setup is limited to yourself. 

I install between 2 or 3 a month and have attempted to make it work in both my houses. I've seen about 1/3 work perfectly, 1/3 work with quirks, and 1/3 completely unusable due to dropouts. Add to that the reduced speed of the network while the music is streaming. Add to that the fact that you're either streaming from a switched on computer or locked into the miserable AppleTV platform (which holds about half my music collection without videos even entering into the equation) and you've got a lousy experience for a large contingent of users. 

The little AppleTV / Airport Express setup, to me, is like Bose. I think there's a crucial niche in the market for these types of novel "plug and play" solutions, but they're just not robust enough to suit the high-end client. I've bought my parents Bose and I've suggested the Apple setup to friends, but I'd no sooner recommend it to a client than give them the flu.

The only wireless system I've ever seen work well is Sonos, but its own limits (streaming only being the biggest issue, and "closed system" being the second biggest) prevent me from using it in many jobs. The wireless part of it is pretty solid, though. Apple could learn a thing or two from them! 

Trip, you clearly don't know much about WiFi, about throughspeeds, about "bottlenecks", about stability issues, or about how to configure the setup properly.

So how can you use your own experiences to denigrate the potential. Lots of users on this forum have WiFi networks that work excellently.

Just to comment on one of several items in your post:

"Add to that the reduced speed of the network while the music is streaming." Funny.

My quite inexpensive WiFi, which operates in an apartment where I can "see" another ten networks, is capable of:

Having two computers surfing the net without any reduction of network speed - while Music is streamed to one MacMini, two Airport Express Units, one iMac -- at the same time.

For fun, I once sent one film to the BV8 in my home office; another film to the MacMini in the home theatre; a third film to my daughter's iMac; music to the Airport Express units -- with four different computers demanding data from the ReadyNAS Server, on the WiFi network. It worked.
They were different films, mind you, in DVD-resolution (not divx'ed). When I tried to add a fourth film to the batch (to a MacBook Pro), I got the first sign that the network was starting to feel the load.

I did read the instructions on how to set up a network, that helped.

That said, wiring for Ethernet is a perfectly good option.

Your constant slagging of Apple products, with claims that they underperform, deliver bad sound, etc., is just not helping your cause, I think. Those who know a little bit about sound management in OSX will know you're completely wrong - but then we're also likely to have read the instructions as to how to set up for best possible sound porting.

BTW - in another thread you wrote the following, which made you seem ridiculously bent out of shape by Apple products:

TripEnglish wrote:

I'd say that watching grass grow is better than AppleTV!

Since an ATV is delivering tv-series and movies in HD sound and vision to my home, as well as allowing the display of our family photographs in HD, as well as permitting us to enjoy numerous podcasts, internet radio, YouTube - and allows us to not only play the music we have on servers and Mac's throughout the house, we can also purchase music (and film and television series), with a little ATV that hasn't failed or hickup'd once since it was bought more than two years ago, and which keeps updating itself to make certain it doesn't ...

This from a unit which ports content through HDMI, mind you, in CD-resolution sound (or 48kHz when sending multichannel movies/tv-series) and with a 1080i image. And you really should try the hand gestures control of movie and tv-series playback on the iPod Touch or iPhone - magic. Below you'll see a little selection of the films available on my harddisk, which will play instantly should I press one - and where ff, rewind, pause, chapter selection, etc., is easily available on my iPhone or iPod touch - with the content being constantly displayed and updated.

How is all of this worse than watching grass grow?

😁

Everything the BS5 should have been, but more 😎  thumbs up to you... wonder what B&O make of this...

TripEnglish wrote:

 

Though the Beo6 will probably make all this talk obsolete. 

Only time will tell

Dario your thinking is really clever! A good idea, even though we all know it won't happen i still love it

thanks mobeyone and dave,

the best thing is, the ipad is nearly the same size like the display of the original beosound 5 system... ;-)

i agree with you, the concept has almost no chance to realize by b&o... unfortunately.

maybe the beosound 5 light will have a demountable display to use it as a portable remote. that would be great. maybe it's the beo 6?!?

cheers

dario

Why must the display be detachable? Leave it as-is... and have a hand held controle device as an option. I'm sure that's what B&O have in mind for the new Beo6-ish device.. 

Many years back, there was actually an interview with the Beosound 5 designer where he explained the concept as a tablet, that people could hold at a cocktail party with one hand and operate and walk around with.

Note that this was supposed to be the Beosound 5, not the 2 way remote some are waiting for.

JK

If I remember correctly.. the designer said that a person should be able to controle the BeoSound 5 it with one hand... holding his drink in the other hand. Holding your drink and operating a tablet with another hand... in my humble opinion not possible.. except when you have 3 hands