Sony NAS-A1 NetJuke
By Alexander Grundner |
April 26th, 2004
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Not sure what Sony is trying to accomplish with the NAS-A1 NetJuke PC stereo, but Engadget is not impressed either. They write, “NAS-A1 NetJuke stereo [is] launching as part of the Any Music joint venture (background), which is based on the model of living-room multimedia PCs masquerading as home audio, tied to a music download service, that can also be hooked up to a TV or a separate LCD screen for web/mail functions. The thing we find tedious about the whole deal is that it seems you can only stream music to the stereo over a home LAN from one of Sony’s Vaio PCs, and that you can only check out music to portable players via MemorySticks or NetMD. The other uninspiring aspect is that the NAS-A1 costs Y90,000 (about $830), which seems like an awful lot.”
We couldn’t agree more. Who would want to pay for a device like this when you can subscribe to a mainstream download music service (iTunes, Napster, etc.) and setup a streaming media adapter to access you PC’s music library from any room for less than $250?
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