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Wireless Home
Theater
There are many
companies providing Wireless Home Theater systems differing in cost,
complexity and functionalities. For example, recently a new wireless
5.1 channel surround sound Wireless Home Theater-in-a-box system
from Sony. The speakers and the subwoofer of the DAV-DS1000 connect
to its receiver digitally using infrared, so you don't have to
string speaker cable everywhere. The DAV-DS1000 also has an
unusual-looking upright DVD player that plays Super Audio CDs as
well as regular DVD video discs.
Let’s see
another scenario for Wireless Home Theater. Rockford Corporation and
RealNetworks recently announced that the Omnifi Wireless Home
Theater digital media streamer is now interoperable with the
award-winning Rhapsody Internet jukebox service, making Rhapsody the
first digital music service to enable consumers to control and
listen to the service in their living room. The Omnifi Wireless Home
Theater digital media streamer enables broadband-connected consumers
to link their PC and high-fidelity home stereo and Wireless Home
Theater systems to enjoy Rhapsody's library of more than 30,000 CDs
throughout their homes.
The Omnifi Wireless Home Theater product is a
stand-alone receiver capable of streaming media from consumers'
personal computers to their home stereo and home theater systems
utilizing their existing wired and/or wireless 802.11B home
networks. Omnifi Wireless Home Theater gives consumers the ability
to easily transmit entertainment content from the PC hard drive to
consumers' home stereo/theater systems. In the past year, the Omnifi
Wireless Home Theater has won a number of prestigious awards,
including the CEA "2003 Best of Innovations" award at CES 2003 and
TechTV's "Best of CES" award. Priced at $299, the device began
shipping in August and now supports
Rhapsody.
"Pairing Rhapsody and Omnifi Wireless Home
Theater products changes the way consumers interact with and consume
digital music," said Tim Bratton, general manager of wireless music
delivery, RealNetworks. "Real and Omnifi Wireless Home Theater are
finally giving consumers the ability to select and listen to online
music from anywhere in their home."
New Omnifi products will ship with updated
firmware that enables consumers to access the playlists, albums,
artists and radio stations in their Rhapsody library. Existing
Omnifi customers must upgrade the firmware on their Omnifi device,
which can be easily, accomplished using the device's SimpleCenter
software. "Omnifi allows a user to easily stream the audio content
held on their computer or straight from the Internet to a dedicated
home theater system without the burden of rewiring the house,"
explains Tom O'Mara, Omnifi managing director. "Combining Omnifi
products with Real's Rhapsody service gives music fans an instant
collection of more than 30,000 high fidelity CDs they can enjoy in
the same room or on the other side of the house with no degradation
of sound quality."
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