Saw that this morning, and did a google search to see if BridgeCo had any relation with B&O, but it does not seem.

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Read it too... and find it very interesting... But this goes against B&O's own MasterLink :-( Apple is making it very easy for audio (and in the future video) manufacturers to distribute music (and video) though the house.

Let's see that the future brings... Hope that the next generation Masterlink is around the corner...

With BeoSound 5 you can already listen to music in every room without missing a beat. What's more, it does not have to be a compressed file format but high quality lossless.

BeoNut1 wrote:

At the risk of beating a dead horse (an American expression), but in the hope that B&O reads these forums:

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/26627/

The horse probably isn't dead but tired.  Airplay is indeed interesting and I am sure that everyone in the audio/video world knows about it.  However in order to use Airplay, you still have to stream from a computer with iTunes running or an IOS device like iPad or iPhone 4.  

Apple allowing 3rd party companies to play Apple lossless music on other media servers would be the big change.

AirPlay does more than just stream your music to external speakers. It streams information about your music, too. Song titles, artists, album names, elapsed and remaining time, and album artwork all appear on AirPlay-enabled speakers with graphical displays.

Reiminds me of all the things we said the BS5 should've been capable of when it was released with it's tethering wires!

More information on BridgeCo which is the company making the chips that will enable Airplay on remote speakers.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/39062683

B&O can certainly sign up for this technology and include it in future products.  I'm not so sure about the graphical interface is all that important.  I would probably stream from an iPhone or iPad.  Maybe the future Beosound 5 will include this.

Video streaming can only be done to an Apple TV which already includes Airplay.  You could connect the audio out to the AUX port on most B&O music systems.  The Apple TV at $99 is an inexpensive Airplay system.

linder wrote:

Apple allowing 3rd party companies to play Apple lossless music on other media servers would be the big change.

Not sure I follow?

There are various 3rd party solutions that use only a part of the Apple platform, while providing other playback chains - and it is in lossless, or even uncompressed Redbook full resolution CD quality, if you want that ...

Airport Express or AppleTV, or a Mac computer, will send/receive at CD-quality, if it gets CD-quality.

But solutions such as Pure Music or Amarra just use the iTunes "filemaker" capabilities, while taking over the output playback with their own drivers (bypassing QuickTime); and there are solutions that even convert every file on your harddisk to WAV, before moving it to an SD card, from which it is played as from a buffer.

There are absolutely no restrictions by Apple on this kind of utilization of their product. You can install iTunes on a PC, have your music on a ReadyNAS and control iTunes on your PC with your mobile phone from Siemens, and use a non-Apple remote control application, and output high-resolution files through the set-up, if you wish.

A "$15 billion business"....... will B&O be a part of this?

http://blogs.computerworld.com/16918/interview_apples_airplay_is_a_big_big_business

What I find interesting that I can do this today. Just not from Ipad/Iphone and without ID3 tags. Or maybe better I can't as it doesn't work acceptable to me.

I had 1st gen 3 Airport express and then an Apple. neither is able to play music without hick ups through wireless streaming.

I live in a condo with many wifi networks around.

Somebody try it out first before we are making any kind of calls ....... I have reservations to be honest .......