Philips Streamium WACS3500 and WAS5000: kind of dreamy, um

Philips are showing off their latest home audio Streamium solution at CES today. Meet the WAS5000 and WACS3500 multi-room solution for streaming music wirelessly throughout the house. The WACS3500 (top) is a three-piece configuration with 80GB hard disk and the ability to up to four additional stations to enable advanced features such as Music Follows Me, the ability for music to turn on and off as you travel from room to room; Music Broadcast to annoy the family everywhere in the house; or My Room, My Music for personalized playlists on different stations in different rooms. The WAS5000 is aimed at extending your existing audio system by connecting UPnP back to your PC and enables the same advanced features as the WACS3500. The WACS3500 should be set to roll in the first half of 2007 for $399 while the WAS5000 will pop for $499.

[riggs @ Jan 10th 2007 3:32AM]

i am seriously getting this.

[ADE DAVIES @ Jan 11th 2007 5:51PM]

wow - looks cool,

shame, cause they have good ideas (years in front of most) (idtvs, plasmas cd dvd recorders), but are poorly built,

[mark @ Jan 10th 2007 6:25AM]

I really am gonna buy this beautifull device!!! Great stuff again of Philips!

[PTUK @ Jan 10th 2007 8:23AM]

Great idea - 10 points. Nice design - 10 points BUT THEY DON"T WORK WITH APPLE MACS. Minus several million points. Dorks. Why can't these companies think outside the box for a change. 50% of Macs sold in stores went to PC users new to the Mac and yet Philips denies them the pleasure of integrating Apple with Philips.