Tag Archives: Rocketboost

New Insignia 450W 5.1-channel home theater with Rocketboost adds anchor to Best Buy’s wireless audio standard

By mtc | Published: September 1, 2010
There is now a centerpiece device for Best Buy’s Rocketboost wireless audio standard. This Insignia NS-R5101AHD-A is a pretty impressive home theater receiver with modern features such as: 3D pass-through 5.1 channel surround processing, Dolby, DTS, super plus happy technologies, yadda yadda yadda. Audyssey suite of dynamic EQ technologies 3 HDMI inputs 450 Watts of total [...]
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Rocketboost card gets FCC approval… Rocketboost-ready gear imminent?

By mtc | Published: August 18, 2010
Good stuff! Rocketboost has some FCC action going on. The new Rocketboost card has gained approval and will enable a range of Rocketboost-ready consumer electronics products, from flat-panel TVs, to Blu-ray players, to soundbars to support Best Buy’s “house” wireless audio standard. Great to see some progress and I hope this means more 3rd parties [...]
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For device makers, AM2G’s special sauce is in AAL

By mtc | Published: December 21, 2009
Avnera announced AM2G today.  From the release: Avnera has announced the availability of the AvneraAudio Link™ (AAL) software protocol stack. AAL eliminates the low-level details typically required to implement a multipoint to multipoint network, significantly reducing the time to market. It also provides manufacturers with a way to establish interoperability between all AudioMagic 2G-enabled wireless [...]
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Best Buy released a marketing video showing how Rocketboost enabled products can help

By mtc | Published: November 21, 2009
A bit corporate and simplified, but you weren’t expecting tear-downs and spectrum plots now were you?  There are never too many ways to tell a good story… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
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In stores now, Rocketboost announcement makes the rounds on the ‘net.

By mtc | Published: October 23, 2009
The new line of RocketBoost-enabled products hits brick and mortar stores this week.  Best Buy issued their press release full of executive quotes and the usual light-on-details value props.  Crunchgear, Engadget, I4U, and others dropped their cursory mentions that, perhaps not surprisingly, didn’t offer much more detail. A few points worth clarifying for those totally [...]
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Rocketboost. Engage.

By mtc | Published: October 7, 2009
Bestbuy.com has just posted the four newest Rocketfish SKUs. The noteworthy element here is that they are all Rocketboost-enabled devices. The underlying digital wireless technology is based on Avnera‘s AM2G wireless audio solution, which has undergone a spiffing up via some API goodness added to their solution to enhance interoperability for device makers and foster [...]
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