September 19, 2007

Denon's New Sound System to Offer Music Streaming

Denon is set to release a pair of cool new Home Theater systems that offer some really nice features, most notably WiFi for Audio Streaming. While these aren't the most ground breaking of Home Theater systems ever to be offered we like the idea that they are including the option to stream audio from somewhere else on your network. It also comes equipped with a USB port so you can hook up an external drive or MP3 player as well. There two models in this release are the S-102 and the S-302. The S-302 succeeds the S-301 which also offered the same USB connection ability, but lacked the WiFi option while the S-102 succeeds the S-101 and doesn't offer any WiFi or USB connection.

This offering from Denon is fairly basic sporting two speakers and a subwoofer so no surround sound, but it does have HDMI and 1080p upscaling. It looks like a very nice little Home Theater system that gives you the flexibility to stream music from your already created digital archive of music.

The fact that Denon is offering audio streaming on their new line is a good sign that you can expect to see more and more of the big audio companies bundling some kind of streaming feature into a few of their products. You can really start to feel the momentum going with streaming media in the home. It has been going on for a long time, but as of the past 6-8 months we have seen more of the bigger companies( read slow to change ) jump into the streaming media world. We expect that this holiday season along with CES in January will usher in a huge new crop of streaming media devices and we can't wait!

via engadget