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We've just received the following press release from one of our sponsors, offering a 10% discount on the new Sonos multi-room system...

"Sonos allows music enthusiasts to enjoy their digital music collections in any room in the house - using wireless amplifiers controlled by wireless handheld colour screen remote controls.

Sonos can connect to music held in a variety of formats including MP3 and FLAC, stored either on PCs, Macs or even network storage servers. Sonos has been greeted with rave reviews since its launch in the USA, both from the press and from users for its amazing ease of use, cutting edge design and of course its great sound quality.

To celebrate the UK launch, Pluggedin.tv are offering 10% discount on all Sonos items ordered before June 30th 2005 - so now is the time to get that professional multi-room audio system you always wanted at a truly DIY price...

I've just uploaded the write-up on my new Jukebox/NAS machine at home. There are photos and costs too...

"Since ripping and centralising all our DVDs and CDs a few years ago our "Jukebox" server had grown and grown and was in need of replacement. With 5 years of digital photographs taking up 10s of gigabytes alone and ripped DVDs taking anywhere from 3gig to 9gig each!, no matter how much disk space you have it never seems quite enough.

The donated ancient motherboard and RAM that I had received three years ago had performed well. Despite being a lowly Pentium Pro 200 with 128meg, it had coped admirably with serving multiple PCs, Xboxes and other IP clients. However the drive bay configuration in the old AT rackmount case (that had been "modified" with a hacksaw to allow the ATX board to be fitted) meant there was no room left to add any more hard disks, and keeping the drives that were already in there cool was becoming a major issue too...

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Since ripping and centralising all our DVDs and CDs a few years ago our "Jukebox" server had grown and grown and was in need of replacement. With 5 years of digital photographs taking up 10s of gigabytes alone and ripped DVDs taking anywhere from 3gig to 9gig each!, no matter how much disk space you have it never seems quite enough.

The donated ancient motherboard and RAM that I had received three years ago had performed well. Despite being a lowly Pentium Pro 200 with 128meg, it had coped admirably with serving multiple PCs, Xboxes and other IP clients. However the drive bay configuration in the old AT rackmount case (that had been "modified" with a hacksaw to allow the ATX board to be fitted) meant there was no room left to add any more hard disks, and keeping the drives that were already in there cool was becoming a major issue too...

The guys over at ecoustics.com have reviewed the Sonos wireless mutliroom audio system

"Sonos miraculously simplifies whole-house audio. You don't need to be a computer expert, you don't need to be an electrician, you don't need to know someone who is either, and you don't even need to hire an installer. Plus you don't need anything pre-wired. Sounds too good be true, doesn't it? But the Sonos system was really that simple to setup and start using...

Last night saw the MTV launch of the new Xbox 360 (to be repeated on MTV in the UK tonight). As expected the new Xbox has learnt lessons from the huge success of the Xbox Media Center project on the original hardware. The press release reveals...