New Clearcom Wireless- Freeespeak II or Edge?
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Jay Ashworth
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You'll find Angry Audio's Michael Dosch, who co-designed the PR&E broadcast boards, the king of their market for 20 or 30 years, disagrees with you:
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Because Bluetooth is not a professional-grade protocol? I can see angry customers calling support, screaming about latency and disconnects at some critical moment in the show... and worse, on a pack that could have been a WIRED INTERCOM.
Copper - when crap really matters.
I know Mike, and I disagree with him. It's all good until it isn't, and you lose the account over it.You'll find Angry Audio's Michael Dosch, who co-designed the PR&E broadcast boards, the king of their market for 20 or 30 years, disagrees with you:
BluetoothGadget - Angry Audio
My perspective is a little different. If something fails or doesn't work as planned, in the businesses I managed for 30 years, we get fired. If a producing company has a failure of their equipment or people, it's just a disappointment, not feeding families and keeping a business running. Losing a corporate account because the CEO's "walk up music" stuttered or didn't play at all is a whole 'nuther matter.
I remain fully confident in copper wire, and have yet to find *anything* wireless that has the reliability of a wired connection, at least outside of military grade hardware and personnel.
Jay Ashworth
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We have established, yes, that there is a tier where any failure at all, however unnoticeable, is unacceptable.
But you know, even though *I* disapprove, we're launching people to ISS using *Windows* on the consoles, nowadays.
Point is, "nothing may fail ever" is not *the only tier*, and people who are not in that tier should be permitted to buy -- and be able to buy -- things of lower performance. You buy your Riedel Bolero and have fun with it.
I rent Bolero if that's what is needed but usually those choices are made before I'm hired. I just get to inventory them.
And yes, Windows CE is still in use in an embarrassing number of aerospace and defense applications. Sorry 'bout that. Seems that once they get their "widget" working they are loath to make sweeping changes. To be fair, even Windows 95 could work fine if it only has to run 1 primary application... but once something is built the platform does not change.
Jay Ashworth
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I'm pretty sure SpaceX's master control workstations are running Win10 or 11, from screens included in wideshots, not CE.
But, again: because there are people who *need* Reidel quality comms, that does not mean that things lesser than that *should not be sold commercially* -- that was your assertion, right? Or have I misunderstood you? Happens once a month, at least. ;-)
But, again: because there are people who *need* Reidel quality comms, that does not mean that things lesser than that *should not be sold commercially* -- that was your assertion, right? Or have I misunderstood you? Happens once a month, at least. ;-)
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We have 20 year old missle systems that run on Win2k. There are naval systems with Win98.
As for what should be on the market, I mostly don't care. I care about reliability, functionality and range. In my work failures result in lost accounts and diminished incomes. Andi take failures personally.
