Sonos Multi-Room Music System

Sonos  has made multi-room music systems for many years and seems to be getting better and better.
"Sonos gives you a world of music at your fingertips — from the Internet and your computer. Play all the songs stored on your PC or Mac. Tune in to thousands of free Internet radio stations. And enjoy millions of songs and stations from the most popular online music services."

So, you want to listen to music room to room throughout your house. Have the kids playing their music in one room while you listening to your relaxing music in a different room. Multi-room Multi-source.
 How can you achieve it, 
  - you would think you need to home run speakers wire and ethernet cable to all the rooms.

Not with Sonos!!! Wireless, goes through walls, ceiling and outside.
They use a mesh network technology provides whole-house coverage
  Broadband Cable or DSL Modem    Router                            ZoneBridge    or      ZonePlayer ( S5, ZP120. ZP90)


Product
- ZoneBridge, if your house doesn’t have Ethernet wiring or your router is in a room where you don’t want music.
-Can also be used to extend the range of your Sonos system and expand the Controller’s wireless coverage. Price $119 CAN
- Sonos S5, high-performance wireless music system with 5 speakers powered by 5 dedicated digital amplifiers for crystal-clear, room-filling sound. Just plug it in and enjoy great sounding music wherever you want. Price $479 CAN
- ZP120, is amplified, wireless, compact, just hook-up a pair of 

ZP120

speakers. You can also add a power subwoofer to it. Price $599 CAN 
-ZP90, Just connect the ZP90 to any amplified audio or receiver in any room and it’s instantly part of the wireless Sonos system.  Price $399 CAN

                        ZP90












- CR200, gives you instant, wireless access to all your music and rooms at the touch of a finger. The full-color VGA display, ultra-responsive touch screen and dedicated buttons make it a joy to use for everyone in the house. Price $399 CAN

Now a Great feature with the Sonos System is you can download FREE APPLICATION (iPad, iPhone, iTouch and now for Android) and it becomes a  Sonos Controller.
Search for songs, control the volume, play the same song in every room, or choose different songs for different rooms. It’s all in your control, all from the palm of your hand.

So you see, you don't have to do a major construction job to have a excellent sounding system throughout your Home.
check it out, click here SONOS

Written By: Hi Fi

BlackBerry's Playbook is Out !!!!!!!!!

BlackBerry's Playbook hits the stores today.

Full computing power in a tablet format
       - 1 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB RAM
Symmetric multi-processing 
       - Accelerometer, 6-axis motion sensing        (gyroscope), digital compass (magnetometer) and GPS
        - Micro USB port


Cameras
        - 3 MP high-definition forward-facing camera
        - 5 MP high-definition rear-facing camera
        - Stereo speakers and stereo microphones
        - Crystal clear video; H.264, MPEG4, WMV HDMI video output
         - Micro USB and Micro HDMI ports

Size & Weight
         - Width 7.6" / 194mm
         - Depth 0.4" / 10mm
         - Weight 0.9 lbs / 425g         - Height 5.1" / 130mm

Uncompromised web
        - Games, media, apps and everything the real Internet offers
        - Full Adobe® Flash® 10.1 enabled
        - Built-in support for HTML 5
        - No-compromise rendering of text, graphics and video

        
- Wirelessly connect to your BlackBerry® smartphone* for real time access to: Email, calendar, address book and task list, using BlackBerry® Bridge™
- BlackBerry Bridge technology Corporate intranet browsing DocsToGo, Adobe Reader Enterprise VPN

- Micro HDMI port for 1080p playback

- Music Store by 7 Digital, BlackBerry® Podcast app

- Rapid development environment
- Reliable BlackBerry Tablet OS, powered by QNX technology
- Supports POSIX OS, SMP, Open GL, BlackBerry® 6, WebKit, Adobe Flash, Java® and Adobe Mobile AIR.

There is going to be a lot of comparison, between Apple's iPad 2 and BlackBerry's Playbook this year, so let it begin.

Written By: HiFi

 

YouTube Live stream of Royal Wedding

www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel.

Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton, Royal Wedding stream live on YouTube.

On Friday, April 29, begin at 10:00a BST  9:00a GMT, 2:00a PT, 5:00a ET.

YouTube-Live

New YouTube-Live browse page www.youtube.com/live , will feature live streaming of sporting events, concerts and interviews.

As I was written this blog, an event was about to start in an hour.

Watch YouTube Presents! Duran Duran LIVE from the YouTube Headquarters today in where Ali Rivera from YouTube will conduct a Q/A with the band.

You Can add the live upcoming events to your calendar, subscribe to your favorite YouTube live-streaming partners. They are trying a live streaming beta platform, which will allow certain YouTube partners with accounts in good standing to stream live content on YouTube. Hoping for thousands of partners.

Events upcoming: Cricket Indian Premier League / Fashion TV Live / etc.

CHECK IT OUT, Should be a great way to watch live programming.



 

Amazon Cloud Player

Streaming service allows you to take your music collection with you. All your music is store on a server, 5GB of free storage, (approx. 1000 songs) you can purchase more.

- Download Amazon MP3 Uploader program, it will search for your music including music you’ve purchased through iTunes . Then select which songs you what to upload to the cloud. If you purchases music from Amazon, it will not count against your storage space.

- you can now download your music to any computer or Android device with an Internet connection. Then play it offline. A little competition to iTunes and iPhone.

-Technology moving fast, next you will be able to upload and download your Videos.

-"Problem",   as of this date ONLY AVAILABLE in the USA. Hopefully coming soon to Canada.

Written By Hi Fi

Logitech Harmony 900 Remote

Logitech Harmony Remotes is a great consumer Programmable Remote Control.    Price $479 can.

-To program, you need to connect to your PC or Mac®. Tell them the Model and Make of the devices you want to program, ( DVD Toshiba BDX2100 etc.). Their on-line software will guide you through programming the remote, to control all your devices.
Their Software support over 5,000 brands and 225,000 devices, and grows every day.

-Press one button ( Watch a DVD ), full-colour touchscreen that would signal the remote to
-turn on the TV, to a specific input HDMI 1
-turn on the DVD player
-turn on your Audio/Video Receiver, to a specific source, BR/DVD
-Volume will be controlled by the A/V Receiver and not the TV
-Press Play on the remote and your watching  your movie.
One Button, One remote did all that. If you did not have a programmable remote, you would need 3 remotes to do all those steps.

Harmony 900 Remote RF technology lets you control devices, even through cabinet doors.

You can hide your devices, in a cabinet or a different room.* (* up to 100 feet away and depending on the structure of the cabinet or walls of the building*)

-One of the best feature is the base station, charge up the batteries. No more buying batteries.

The Harmony 900 Remote can program your whole Home Entertainment System, and they have tech support if you run into problems.

Written By HiFi

Warner Bros. & Facebook Venture

Warner Bros. will be streaming of full-length Hollywood films on Facebook.
-They will be testing an offering selected movies for purchase or rental. - Pay by Facebook Credits, (Virtual Currency). 
-Rental cost 30 Facebook Credits or $3.00US, for 48 hrs. You got full control of the movie, pause, stop & restart whenever you log back in. 
-You can purchase Facebook Credits using your Credit Card, PayPal or a Mobile phone.
-The Dark Knight is the first movie Rental.
-Viewers can post comments on the movie.

Well, it never seems to stop. There are always new exciting ways to view and now chat about your favourite movies.

Written by HiFI