[john woodall]

It is good for the British modeller who only buys Hornby Product.

Now all Hornby need to do is main stream it so it becomes a standard product (ie all locomotives have a DCC chip in them) which will enduce them to develope further DCC items.

John

 

[john woodall]

Valid points Brian.

Ultmately Hornby are going to be driven by the return on their investment, not what is "best" for the modeller. When you consider that just about the entire world has accepted DCC as the norm, and Hornby are only now embracing it you have to seriously wonder why they spent any R&D on it when they could have rebadged at a fraction of the cost (and from reading this forum the grief!).

I suppose in the ideal world all locomotives would come with a socket preinstalled so that a decoder of choice can be plugged in.

Being a 3 railer, I am lucky I suppose that the sound locomotives that I buy all have loksound 3.5 in them. I will be honest and say it must be a good 10 years since I purchasd a locomotive that did not come with a DCC chip preinstalled in it.

John