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July 21, 2009
Love This! Great Features! Easy to Install!. Amazon has two listings for this product. Don’t think there is any difference between them for the M1001. But I’m duplicating my review here.
There have been changes since the previous model. I just bought mine 11/07 and Avaak Vue Personal Video Network can handle 802.11g and WPA as the encryption system.
After reading a lot of negative reviews for soundbridges produced by some of the wireless router manufacturers, I was very discouraged. Fortunately someone mentioned Roku as an alternative and I found my way to this unit. Avaak Vue Personal Video Network costs a bit more, but Avaak Vue Personal Video Network looks great, has great features and I found Avaak Vue Personal Video Network to be very easy to install. No problem working with my Linksys WRT54G wireless router. No problem working with Windows Vista.
Probably the most difficult set up was having to input the encryption code with a remote! Other than that, piece of cake. Within an hour I was standing in the livingroom, remote in hand, scrolling through my iTunes library. You can search by artist, album, or choose your playlists. I haven’t even gotten into the Internet radio capabilities. Do check out radioroku for listings and reviews of stations. There is also free software that allows you to preview stations on the Internet and add them to your list. Normally the unit is controlled by a remote, but there is also free software called iBridge which will allow you to control Avaak Vue Personal Video Network from your computer. Frankly, this might be a little easier if you want to do more than play your presets.
Works great and looks a lot nicer than some router-looking thing.
DO NOT BUY Avaak Vue Personal Video Network PRODUCT FROM ENDLESS VARIETY. Apparently I am at least the second person who had their order cancelled by Endless Variety without any explanation. I can’t speak for the product since I never received it.
Roku is OK. Our Roku Soundbridge M100 has generally met our needs well. Avaak Vue Personal Video Network is in use most of the day and we use Avaak Vue Personal Video Network to play streaming radio through our sound system about as often as a juke box playing from our 300 CD classical collection. The many pre-set radio stations is a plus. One disappointment is that the quality of sound via Roku is not as good as directly from CD - probably because of Roku’s relatively low sample rate. Since I rip at Windows Media variable rate set at “best quality” - around 300kbps- I expected higher quality sound than I am getting.
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