Disklavier

WOW! Lot of interesting news in this thread!
I may say a brand new one: I just received from Yamaha a CD, a floppy
disc and a manual with Version 2.10 printed outside!!!!

I live in Europe and I was afraid this version never comes out.
Files inside the CD are aged half of August 2007. It seems different
from your USA version.
Let me enlist the new features like in the manual:
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NEW FEATURES for DKV MIV series - vers. 2.10
-- compatible with Interenet data connection (IDC)
-DisklavierRadio
-DisklavierMusicStore
-Network Update to connect Internet

-- compatible with PianoSoft-PlusGraphics Software

-- file exchange capability between the dkv and PC
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Please let me know what it's different in your 2.0 version. 
I am really curious.

The trouble is that my DKV is out of order and I cannot update and try
it!!
A week ago a restart begins not to end, leaving flashing the main
button in I/O center and the first button on the right as well.
usually the other 4 buttons light on and then off together. In my dkv
it remains still without ending boot process.
Many restart, no sign of start. Obviously the remote control doesn't
work too.
I'm waiting for a Yamaha call-back. I hope they will send soon a new
Mediacenter, as happens in your country. My dkv has only 2 months and
computer parts (and expecially hard disk) have more risk to reveal a
problem in the very first stages. It happens.

About the project in this topic I totally agree that Flash is a
choiche devoted to a skill in the classroom. The most important clue
is the protocol and a readable source code, maybe other languages
could fit better.
But prior to that we need an architecture and before that to define
the goal.
Maybe a PC (or MAC or Linux) could be a good dispatcher to make DKVs
II-II-IV work in the proper way using Internet, Internet Radio, file
operations and playing control, creating play-lists, scheduling of
midi to play, arranging melodies, sync with events from environment or
other midi sources and so on. Maybe more then that.
Yamaha could be interested in keep all that to avoid midi exchange but
maybe a good planned system could interest Yamaha too.
Maybe a prosumer project as happens in social networks....

I didn't know (thanks Mark)DKV competitors, very interesting.  
I hope that competition makes more MIDI available at a reasonable price.

Please, go on enlisting the features of what we would like to play on DKV!

Roberto

P.S.: if my DKV was working this post would have been shorter.... :-)