MP3tunes and Roku stream music to your TV
To boob tube via Wi-Fi
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Today's forecast for personal music collections: cloudy.
Apple is reportedly mulling a move to iTunes-in-the-cloud (that big ol' North Carolina data center is just about ready), Google and Microsoft are making their moves, We7 and Spotify are tapping toes in the UK and beyond, and MP3tunes has opened it's free-if-you-don't-want-much-space, pay-more-for-more music-storage service, Music Locker.
Whether you own your music or you simply want to choose from some company's vast collection of tunes, you have a growing number of choices of where to get it, then play it on your PC, Mac, or handheld.
Now the folks who brought you the Music Locker and its "buy anywhere, listen everywhere" scheme have joined the streaming services — video and music — provided by Roku to add your TV to your music-playing device list.
To bring your Music Locker–ensconced tunes to your TV — which, as MP3tunes founder Michael Robertson says, may very well have "the best speakers in the house" — you'll need one of Roku's eponymous Wi-Fi streaming boxes: the $69.99 Roku SD, $89.99 HD, and $119.99 HD XR (which upgrades the wireless connection to 802.11n/b/g), and a free MP3tunes channel registration at Roku's Channel Store. Upload your tunes, and you're good to go. ®
COMMENTS
Huh?
My TV has the best speakers in the house?
Um... no, that would be my stereo.
TV Speakers
The only speaker worse than the TV ones in my house is the one built into the old clock-radio in the spare room.
TV speakers are notoriously bad, not helped at all by the poor cabinet design. Also what is the point of turning on a 60" (YMMV) screen to _listen_ to music?
That said, at home I'd listen to the files on my server. Anything from an on-demand service will probably have 32bps MP3 files that sound worse than ring-tones.
hows this new technology
Been doing this for years using my PS3 or xbox and TVersity to stream not only all the music I want from my PC but any movies or TV shows stored on my PC?
Why would you pay more for more technology to do what any console can do for free (unless you have the RROD)??
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