Philips Streamium WACS7500 and WAS7500: like, damn, that's hot

Philips' Streamium line of wireless media streamers / extenders just keeps getting better-looking as time goes on, and the new 7500 series continues that tradition in style. Apart from the nifty new upright design, these are pretty much the same Streamium kit you know and love: the WACS7500 hub (left) has an 80GB disk for direct ripping, both Ethernet and built-in WiFi for connecting to your PC for content retrieval, and internet radio support. Up to five WAS7500 extenders can connect to the hub or directly to your PC, and an optional iPod dock lets you jack in locally when you're not feeling the streaming action. Both hub and extender will be available in April -- the WACS7500 for $999, and the WAS7500 extender for $299.

[Justin E @ Jan 6th 2008 10:43PM]

Spare me the terrible Keyshia Cole lyrics in the title...

[Ron @ Jan 15th 2008 3:07PM]

I was just looking into buying the Philips Streamium WACS7000 and happened to notice the annoucement of the new WACS7500 series. I made a quick comparison of the two products and basically understands that the new WACS7500 now features, besides a new design, (i) Internet radio playing ability and (ii) a color LCD display. I have not noticed any other additional features as compared to the WACS7000.

I might be willing to postpone my acquisition of the WACS7000 and switch for the enhanced WACS7500 version, especially considering the Internet radio playing ability this new version now features.

Very interesting and good-looking product indeed !