A perfect example of how counterintuitive reasoning provides surprising results. Hans Monderman, a Dutch traffic planner, had a similar insight. He realized that a major cause of traffic accidents was the signage and traffic control lights. "Remove those," he said, "and the number of accidents will fall." "Are you crazy?"

Sometimes one ends up discussing angels on the head of a pin, I guess. I seem to remember writing that it was the interaction of these items that provided the innovation? The fact that Apple had the computer, the software, the music playback unit, and subsequently also provided the music download. The rest is history. To keep these posts short, there's

Looking forward to a worldwide chain of B&O restaurants, as the "waiters of B&O" start doing their magic. Looked at the original French and saw it should be "serveurs" servers of B&O.

I don't think Apple ever claimed they were first. There were mp3-players in the late 90s, up against SONYs MD-players, for instance. And the principle of operation was used by several mp3-manufacturers. The first mass produced one came in 1997, and the Rio came in 1998. Here's the 1998 Rio: The iPod came in October of 2001, but something else

Peter : Out here in the sticks, my mobile broadband is quicker than my home line!! Which is as quick as my line allows! Yes, already people are making decisions as to where they want to live relative to the broadband speed available. I have a ridiculously fast line where I live now, but made do with a much slower one when I lived off in close proximity

Check out www.musicgiants.com or www.videogiants.com You can own the content in HD without any trouble at all, and Apple is just one of many providers. Bandwidth is a potential problem, but it is also being expanded exponentially. You will also find that pay-per-download solutions will incorporate the download speeds you want. I have broadband at home

Blu-ray on disc is already dead, that's why there is such little support for the format. When did you last see a proper BD-campaign, on behalf of the industry? The format is being overtaken by preferred delivery systems that actually offer better content protection, though not the same top-end resolution of sound and image. (Though there's nothing

ThePriest: Hi I will give you a warning (if you can call it that) and of course it's all up to you. You will fast discover that your CD collection or what ever you have, will shrink big time and you suddenly what to go out a buy new music (music recorded in good quality) now why is it like that, it simple the BL5's is so transparent that they

I have the BV8. Very satisfied, no problems - and as you say, with the proper source, the image is brilliant.

wonderfulelectric: Haha... on the basis that the Beolab 3s compress even playing moderate volumes as do the Beolab 8000s. Anyways I was just sent a customer satisfactory form and I've written under the comments that I really like your designs but please use better quality components, be it through the use of outsourcing or price rise. I seriously