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I stream music from my PC(high quality MP3's) to my system wirelessly using an Apple Airport Express. The Airport Express is hooked up digitally to my pre/pro. EXCELLENT sound quality......not quite as good as the 2900....but for endless music, it is great!

I only have about 2000 songs ripped so far.

Listening to it right now.

Ya, checking for software as well since we have three PS's and 3 Sun boxes on 24/7, and most have music files stored. So any help will be considered on that project.

I suggest looking at the Roku Soundbridge:
http://www.rokulabs.com/products/soundbridge/index.php

and the SqueezeBox
http://slimp3.com

There are some units now that can files right off of NAS devices or PC/Servers without the need of any special software.

You got all that hardware running the whole time?

Oh ya, the Suns are for the roomie that is a Unix sys admin, my PC and the other two PC's for the roomie that is a programer, with them and 6 monitors, spa and things, PG& E loves us.

One Sun runs the dns, domain, web pages, have about 7 users that use the Suns remotely, and if the DSL has a problem for a few minutes,have people calling me and bitching.

Last mind change for the evening, since Ray, John, and Curtis are all agreeing, I'm going with the Denon 2900 it seems.

Off to bed, tomorrow night could be a late one if there is no delay in the Halos arriving. Nite

a slite hijack but how do all you guys justify buying $1000 dvd players with bluray and hd-dvd lurking just arounfd the corner?

A reasonable question, Jacob.

Firstly, the 2900 or the 2910 will be considerably less than $1000 ($419 -$600), though that still is a fair amount of money.

Secondly the HD players won't be coming out until the end of the year, and when they do they will be prohibitively expensive. It'll take at least another year or two for the prices to come down to affordable levels. So, realistically, the absolute earliest I could even start thinking about one will be two years, and I suspect it will probably be longer before I can actually get one.

Thirdly, there initially will be the inevitable format war (blu-ray vs. HD DVD). It would seem prudent to wait until one of them surfaces as the dominant format. No fun to spend a big chunk of dough on a player that quickly becomes obsolete. Although, like the SACD vs. DVD-A war, this one could go on for a long time. No telling how long it will be until players are released that play both formats.

And, of course the 1080p HDTV sets are coming out too, so there is a LOT of money to be spent. Time to get saving!

Could not have explained it better, thanks Jack. Also most of my life, something is always just around the corner, only issue is its like walking the street blind, you never actually know how far it is to that damn corner. I'm still waiting for the local repeaters on streets, so that people that live beyond the 16,500 foot limit from a central office can have high speed internet, and end the problem with pesky phone lines, signal through the ari, great concept, that was suppose to happen soon, and in the works like 15 years ago, and well looking at new houses in 2000, we still needed to know where the CO was so we could limit our search.

Actually, Toshiba is to have the first $1000 HD-DVD player to market in the 4th quarter, and HD-DVD recording media is only suppose to cost 10% more.

I think HD-DVD is going to win the format war, at least from what I have read. For me, the issue is when will it be mainstream. Most TVs in homes still can not handle progressive output....most home systems still can't handle digital audio.

While I love multi-channel/hi-rez audio....look how small that market is. I think the HD-DVD/blu-ray situation is going to be the same for a while.

These new formats are also going to bring on new audio formats.....so there is another upgrade.

Anyways, I think it is going to be another 2-3 years before it will be worthwhile going the HD-DVD/blu-ray route.

I'm just waiting for Denon to make a 5 disc changing Blu-ray, HDDVD, SACD, DVD-A, Redbook CD, DVD-video playing machine for $600-$800 that I can get at ecost for $510!