Following more than a year of speculation that Sonos would release a video streamer to rival Apple, Amazon, Google and Roku’s popular offerings sometime this year, a new report from The Verge states that those plans are now being shelved.
The highly rumoured and anticipated Sonos set-top streaming box was expected to launch the company into the video space, with rumours from the same The Verge author stating that the player, codenamed Pinewood, would use the Android operating system, serve as a HDMI switch and accommodate other video sources, offer the means to configure a proper Sonos surround speaker system, and cost between £200 / $200 and £400 / $400. Only last month was there word of this Sonos streamer launching in the coming months, following a period of beta testing. But those hopes appear to have now been dashed, with the latest report stating that the product abandonment was ‘announced by the company’s leadership during an all-hands call’.
