Syabas says it is nearly ready to ship the PopBox, which it announced in January. The $129 Internet-based A/V streaming set-top box (STB) will offer a variety of user-selectable media-streaming apps, but probably won’t include Netflix, Pandora, or Amazon PPV support at launch.
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Cloud Engines, maker of the Pogoplug, will soon add a new feature to users’ devices free of charge. Once the firmware update is rolled out later this summer, the low cost gadgets will be usable as low-power printer servers, accessible from anywhere via the Internet.
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Sonos offers an interesting family of high-quality devices capable of playing audio streamed from a variety of Internet and local sources wirelessly throughout the home. I’ve just spent a few weeks getting to know the Sonos ZonePlayer S5 and 90 streaming-music players. How well did they perform?
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Boxee announced on its blog this week that D-Link now plans to begin shipping its DM-380 Boxee Box this November in the US and Canada. D-Link initially said its device would be ready by the end of Q2, Boxee added.
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Two years after absorbing a Roku SoundBridge Internet radio into my A/V equipment stash, I started hankering for a more modern device. Specifically, I wanted an Internet audio tuner that would integrate into my whole-house audio system, provide wireless remote browsing and control via an iPod Touch app, and support media sources such as Pandora and local UPnP streams.
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