Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Roku Delivers New SoundBridge Radio
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 08:00 AM
"Roku Labs has launched a new addition to its SoundBridge line of products, which offers networked music players that stream audio from a PC. The SoundBridge Radio takes the form of a tabletop stereo with built-in Wi-Fi for Internet radio stations and streamed music, along with AM and FM radio. The SoundBridge Radio can stream MP3, WMA, AIFF, WAV and un-protected AAC formats, as well as Microsoft's Janus DRM format used by Napster, Real and Yahoo. The player's display is double the size of the original SoundBrdige to aid in selecting music and radio stations. The player will go on sale in November for $399 USD."
I saw this device last week and my biggest problem with it was that it was too big. So, Roku has purposely made the Soundbridge larger but I didn't feel that the larger device and the significantly larger fonts were better. Well, either way, the Soundbridge is now known for its quality and time will tell if the size increase will affect sales.
I saw this device last week and my biggest problem with it was that it was too big. So, Roku has purposely made the Soundbridge larger but I didn't feel that the larger device and the significantly larger fonts were better. Well, either way, the Soundbridge is now known for its quality and time will tell if the size increase will affect sales.
