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Free your music, Wireless devices can send digital tunes throughout the whole house

In the next few years, technology manufacturers will figure out ways to make the devices easier to use, said Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst at Dallas research firm Parks Associates.

"We have found that there is a definite underlying demand for a kind of multiroom distribution of music," Scherf said. "They have a market to tap into if they can design the features right."

From the article "Free your music, Wireless devices can send digital tunes throughout the whole house," by Crayton Harrison.

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