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Billboard's Holiday Gift Guide - Sonos ZonePlayer

Sonos ZonePlayer

The Cadalliac of wireless home entertainment systems, the Sonos ZonePlayer streams both Internet radio stations and music or personal playlists from the Rhapsody music subscription service via a home WiFi network. Here's the kicker. It doesn't even require a PC because it links directly to an Internet connection. However it can work with PC-based music libraries as well. It's also a modular system, meaning additional units can be placed in multiple rooms with each streaming a different song, all controlled by a central remote control. But it comes at a hefty price--$1,000 for the base model and more for additional units-plus the $10-a-month Rhapsody subscription fee.

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