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AirPort Express is Brilliant

Apple just introduced AirPort Express with AirTunes.

The idea of an AirPort the size of an iPod AC Adapter is pretty nifty in itself. I'll have to get one for use in hotel rooms. Now that I've got WiFi at home and in the office and in most airports, I hate the prospect of being tethered in a hotel room.

But the introduction of AirTunes (and the extensions to iTunes that support it) are the most interesting part of this new product.

You simply plug one of these devices into an power outlet near any music system in your house, connect an audio cable from the music system into the AirPort Express, and you can broacast iTunes through your home music system.

I am going to get a couple of these units and play around with them.

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Posted June 7, 2004 in Venture Capital and Technology

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I just ordered two: One for my home office and one for the house. I've been waiting for a simpler way to connect my iTunes database to the home stereo system...other than running 200 feet of RCA cable.

Posted by: Jerry | Jun 8, 2004 8:22:39 AM

For us PC users, Netgear/Digital 5 offers the MP101 product (available at Best Buy) to wirelessly broadcast all your PC's Mp3 content and streamed Rhapsody content from your study (with the PC) to your home entertainment room (with your hifi).

Posted by: Neal | Jun 8, 2004 9:07:39 AM

I saw Jobs introduce it at D. It has no remote control, no way to select what's playing, or even stop it. So if you're two floors away, you have to run back upstairs. I'll stick with my Slimdevices units, which have a remote, and works just fine with wireless or wired, and any amp/speaker system. www.slimdevices.com

Howard

Posted by: Howard Morgan | Jun 8, 2004 10:13:38 PM

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