[BC] Digital Walkman?

[Rich Wood]

------ At 09:23 PM 1/8/2006, Mark W Earle wrote: -------

>You mean, on top of all the other IBOC / IBUZ issues, there is no
>portable option?

Define portable. Car radios are portable. They may be tough to stuff 
in your pocket but they move from place to place. The Boston 
Acoustics receiver is portable. Add a little red wagon and a small 
Honda generator and it's portable. The generator is quiet so it won't 
disturb fellow patrons at Starbucks. It'll kill them but do it 
quietly. Ask Barry if he saw Sony's Buzman at CES.

>A-maz-ing!

Nothing about IBUZ is amazing except our acceptance of its interference.

>One of the best features of normal terrestrial analog radio is CHEAP
>receivers - pack one in your car, your grab-kit, etc. I have an elcheapo
>pocket radio that will proved 20-30 hours of use on 1 battery. Very handy
>when you find yourself in some mode like LA did towards the end of last
>year.

Or New York did during the last 29 hour Eastern blackout. El Cheapo 
radios still worked while phones went out early on. My sources tell 
me portable devices as we normally define them can't be made until 
the power requirements are lowered. Others tell me someone is working 
on less demanding ones. I've yet to see anyone advertise a portable 
device. We all know the advertising begins at the same time as the 
design. The tabletops were being advertised nearly a year before they 
(one of them) became available.

The real moneymakers will be the people who make little red wagons to 
carry the batteries for portable devices.

I saw an interview with Howard Stringer, head of Sony on 60 minutes. 
He didn't use the interview to introduce the Buzman. He did seem to 
know what an iPod was.

Rich Wood
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