Chris Welch is a elder reviewer who has worked astatine The Verge since its founding successful 2011. His sum areas see audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), location theater, smartphones, photography, and more.
Sonos has abandoned far-along plans to merchandise a streaming video player, the company’s activity announced successful an all-hands telephone today. The product, codenamed Pinewood, was group to beryllium Sonos’ adjacent awesome hardware launch. It was already heavy into improvement and has spent months successful beta testing. But now the squad down it will beryllium reassigned to different projects arsenic interim CEO Tom Conrad reprioritizes the company’s early roadmap and continues what he hopes will beryllium a turnaround from a bruising 2024.
The cancellation of Pinewood leaves Sonos without a important caller merchandise to vessel successful the 2nd half of 2025. The institution astir precocious released the Arc Ultra soundbar and Sub 4 astatine the extremity of past year. Internally, immoderate labor were concerned that Pinewood would yet go a repetition of the Sonos Ace headphones and spot the institution trying to return connected well-established players successful a caller merchandise category.
Instead, astatine slightest for now, Sonos will proceed its all-hands-on-deck effort to reconstruct the capacity and estimation of its software. The Verge has reached retired to Sonos for comment.
Pinewood was designed to connection galore of the aforesaid streaming video apps arsenic different devices connected the market. But arsenic I reported past month, Sonos besides planned for it to double arsenic an HDMI switcher and support passthrough functionality for gaming consoles, 4K Blu-ray players, and more. The container was besides group to let caller configurations of situation sound systems utilizing Sonos’ galore speakers.
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