The Roku Soundbridge Network Music Player Delivers Tunes In Any Room

The Roku SoundBridge Network Music Player lets you listen to your digital music stored on a computer anywhere in your home states Craig Crossman host of The Computer America Radio and syndicated newspaper columnist.

(PRWEB) May 28, 2004 -- Buying music downloaded from music services like iTunes, ripping songs from your CD collection and putting all of it into your personal computer seems to be the key to the future of the music industry and how its products will be delivered to the masses. The computer, once used for balancing a checkbook in the past century is fast becoming the music player of choice in this new millennium.

I remember vinyl records, 8-tracks and cassettes and how each of those mediums onto which music was recorded was heralded at the time of their inception as being the ultimate device to deliver music into the hands of consumers. I wonder if those inventors ever imagined that the ultimate device to transport music from one location to another wasn't going to be a physical device at all. Did they imagine that music would one day be delivered as some form of ethereal digital data stream made up of ones and zeros? As millions of songs are bought and sold over the Internet these days, the containers that store the invisible music streams we pay our hard-earned money for resides on computer hard drives, mp3 players that use more hard drives or flash memory, and optical media like CDs and DVDs. The latter still lets us transport our music on physical media but maybe one day it will all be just streams of music being sent to devices that play everything.

One such new device that is designed to play your computer's digital data stream comes from a company called Roku.

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About Craig Crossman:

Craig Crossman is a Knight-Ridder newspaper columnist writing about computers and technology. He also hosts the nation's longest running nationally syndicated radio talk show on computers and technology, Computer America, heard on the Business Talk Radio network weeknights at 10PM ET. In South Florida, you can hear a rebroadcast of a selected Computer America show each Sunday evening at 8PM ET on WJNO 1290AM.