How I appreciated Adam Bosworth's post, PCs and media revamped! With an impending move of sorts (this Wednesday), I'm trying to sort out the best way to rig up a media system for the new house. Like Adam, my media is increasingly stored on hard drives, but I'm sure he's not right when he says that this is the way it is for 'everybody else' — not yet, not in the UK, at any rate.
He has a lot to say, including some good things about iPods as remote controls, but it's this that really echoed my experience:
I go into a PC store and they don't understand amps or speakers and try to push little tiny tinny ones on me. They don't understand wireless at all. I go into a stereo store and they think I still listen to sound from CD's and video from cable or DVD's when again, I typically want it on my disks. They will sell me a flatscreen for $5K or more without blinking, but ask for a 1 terabyte hard disk which should be <$1K and everyone just stares. One terabyte can store a LOT of movies and songs and shows. I also want great recording quality on my sound and the stereo stores seem to know nothing about this.
