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Wi-Fi Enabled Stereo From Philips In Beta

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 16, 2003 @10:51PM from the get-in-on-the-ground-floor dept.

Orangerobot writes "Philips Electronics is undergoing the beta test for the latest model in the Streamium line called the MC-i250. You have to trudge through a cheesy Flash presentation to get all the details, but it looks pretty good: Wi-Fi, CDDB support, online playlist management and more. It looks like they might actually get it right." Reader UVWarning's review of the current generation of Streamium indicates plenty of ways the next generation could improve on the current one.

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Re:They are playing right into my lap... by squaretorus · 2003-03-16 23:35 · Score: 4, Insightful

Danger Danger. I might buy a licence to listen to my new Coldplay album this week and assume its a licence FOREVER. But - the bastards go bust and shut down the service 3 years from now to replace it with a SUBSCRIPTION service - now I have to pay a $20 initial purchase plus $5 annual subscripiton for that album.

No. I wan't some media! In my hand - that plays on generic hardware. No more. No less.