"Tell the industry what you want" postingboard

Snofun3, sales success is a very slow feedback system. It works ultimately but as someone who designs studio gear for a living, I would love to have potential customers tell me about product ideas I'd never considered.

For my two cents, I'd like to see video equipment manufacturers add an HDMI 'through' feature so a switcher would be un-needed.

Of course we design in features that have proved popular and we even look for ideas in other product lines. Sometimes, in spite of having what we think is a strong list of useful features, a product will fall short of sales expectations and other times, some little feature that we think will be little more than a bullet point catches on and a product will outperform our expectations. What I find useful (when it happens) is feedback from actual users or users of other manufacturers products that tell me what we're missing or explain how something like a user interface might be made more intuitive. This can lead to innovations that no one else has.