AirPlay is the way digital music should be. If you have Wi-Fi, you have music. But you also have a tough choice. More and more speakers come equipped with AirPlay, ready out of the box to blast music wirelessly from your preferred Apple gizmo. In a test to find the best, four speakers sounded off — and the one that sounded sweetest was also among the cheapest.
Lost deposits, shattered drywall, gaping holes vomiting forth a jungle of cables. Home theatre installation is not the most viable option for most folks living in rental units. Even if you own a home, unless you’re both tech and construction savvy, you will probably have to deal with home theatre professionals trying to up-sell you nitrogen-infused, gold-plated HDMI cables while they work their way to a hefty bill.
We’re not saying Panasonic’s SC-AP01 wireless speaker bar is a connectivity snob or anything. But it will only stream your music from an Apple device with AirPlay connectivity. It doesn’t have Bluetooth, a dock, or even a line-in jack.
AirPlay allows you to mirror an iOS device screen to an Apple TV and then to a large display screen, but a curious gap in the AirPlay bag of tricks has been the ability to do the same trick to a Mac itself. A new application fixes this problem, turning your Macbook into a very big iPod indeed.
According to the usual band of invisible anonymous sources, the Wall Street Journal says Google’s cooking up its own AirPlay rival. Are they? Probably!
Apple’s AirPlay lets people watch movies, looking at photos, and of course listening to music wirelessly, zapping the content from their iPhones, iPod touches or iPads to their televisions and home speaker systems with a variety of popular iOS music apps.
The Raspberry Pi project is trying to offer you a thumb-drive sized PC for $US35, which is amazing. Only, it just got more amazing, because it can use AirPlay to stream video from your iPad to your TV.
Bang & Olufsen is known for two things: high-quality sound and high-quantity price tags. The AirPlay savvy BeoLit 12 Wireless Speaker don’t disappoint in either regard. Oh, and it looks like a pic-a-nic basket!
