Things have been quite busy for the past week, so I haven't had much time to work on my media streaming setup. But there still has been some progress, so here is a quick update. I still plan to document everything in a separate blog - hopefully I will have some time during the weekend to get the first installment ready to publish.

Anyway, I decided to ditch the SL300i while I could still get a refund, and have a look at other UPnP rendering solutions. So I went over the use cases again and concluded, that for my needs the video part is more of a gimmick than a real uses case. High fidelity audio streaming is the driver and what really matters, so I decided to have a closer look at the Roku offering.

I got a Roku/Pinnacle M1001 yesterday and played around with it for a few hours, and I must say that so far I'm impressed with this little gadget. Sound quality is superb, UPnP implementation seems to be flawless and its finish and other small details (no fan!) makes it suitable for the living room.

I still saw a few glitches, where during full album playback the Media Streamer on N800 would sometimes seem to "forget" that it had changed to next track and get out of sync with the SoundBridge. This would cause same track to be played back twice. But I didn't see it drop connection as it did with the SL300i, and things are definitely MUCH better despite the glitches.

Hopefully I will have time for more experiments during the weekend, so I can report more findings.