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TUNED IN If listening to MP3 music or Internet radio on your computer leaves you cold, SonicBox's imBand Remote Tuner, due out early next year for $50, may be the answer. A small transmitter hooks to your computer's USB port and wirelessly transmits a signal from your PC to any FM tuner in your house. You select which station you want to listen to with a remote control, shown below, that you can set by your side, whether you're lounging on the couch or soaking...
...display told a different story. Even Sony, which is making a big push into gadgets that connect to each other sans PC, still gives an occasional nod to the desktop computer. Its new Music Clip plays 2 hrs. of digital music on a single AA, but gets tunes, via USB cable, from a PC. Available in January, the Clip includes Sony's OpenMG Jukebox software to copy songs...
...Wolves soon bounced back to win the next two games, 15-11 and 15-11. In the fourth and final game of the match, the Crimson jumped out to a quick 10-1 lead, but Harvard's battery soon ran low. USB suddenly surged ahead to gain a 13-11 lead, and the Sea Wolves eventually won the game...
Making things easier, the Yamaha attaches to your PC via the USB port. I borrowed a pair of Bose speakers and plugged them in. Instead of putting them on my desk as I would have with traditional PC speakers, I dropped them in the corners of my office. Then I fired up a movie. With the audio clarity, I felt as if I were at the multiplex...
That said, I would recommend this product only for hard-core audiophiles. The fact is, you could hook almost any stereo receiver into your PC; the PC Home Theater is just supposed to simplify the process through its onscreen "remote control" and by using that handy USB port. Yet I found the system klugey. For instance, I have a TV tuner in my PC, but since the Yamaha device bypasses the sound card the tuner resides on, the TV system doesn't work. A spokesman said I could fix the problem with the right adapters...