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[JimH]

Qualcomm has a protocol called AllPlay that seems to compete with DLNA / UPnP.  Has anyone had any experience with it?  

There aren't any devices yet released in the U.S., but Panasonic has released three devices in Europe, and other companies have plans to build more.  Here's the Panasonic All8 at Amazon.uk.  And the All 3.

At least one implementation is a speaker that shows up in AllPlay enabled software and allows you to play media to it.

I was told that JRiver Media Center shows the devices in Playing Now and can play to them.

[AndrewFG]

I was told that JRiver Media Center shows the devices in Playing Now and can play to them.

That is an interesting comment. If they appear in MC already without you having done anything then I suppose they must be using UPnP as an underlying technology. However I did a check on www.dlna.org and there are no Panasonic SC-ALL3/8 wireless speaker devices listed there. However they do list the Panasonic SC-NE3/5/8 range of wireless speakers as being DLNA certified audio DMRs. From the Panasonic news site, it looks like the SC-ALL models are the 2014 model series successors of the SC-NE 2013 model series, so they might have both DLNA from the prior series plus adding the AllPlay technology in the new series. In any case they are obviously aiming at Sonos.

http://news.panasonic.co.uk/pressreleases/panasonic-announces-new-multi-room-hi-fi-speaker-systems-with-qualcomm-s-allplay-media-platform-975482