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Wi-Fi Enabled Stereo From Philips In Beta

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. They are playing right into my lap... by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My WLAN enabled home media server plan is getting hotter by the minute... bwahahaaa!

    No, but seriously, this is really the solution which makes sense... Why do you have to physically put a disc into your stereo to listen to something? It should be enough to buy the rights to listening (CD or not), have it on a media server of your own or stream right off the net.

    Think of the possibilities for internet radio stations and indie artists if every home stereo could do stuff like that... yay! :)

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    .: Max Romantschuk :: http://max.romantschuk.fi/
  2. Re:As a concerned American patriot, by trelanexiph · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I look at this as someone who's been directly involved in bringing ogg/vorbis to both streaming mediums, and hardware players. Put quite simply if you want ogg vorbis support to pirate music you might as well stick with mp3pro, or mp3. Roughly (if not less than) .5% of music on the P2P networks is in Ogg Vorbis format, and quite frankly we're happy to see it that way. So how can Ogg Vorbis be supporting piracy, if none of the pirates are using Ogg Vorbis?