[BC] DRM broadcasting to begin in USA

[Mark Humphrey]

Try a ROKU Soundbridge.  I have one playing right now; it's currently
"tuned" to SWR1 from Germany and took only 2.5 seconds after pushing
the power switch before the audio started playing.  No fuss, no muss.

It has memory presets, a PAD display and a real time clock that
automatically syncs to an internet time server; one of the most
convenient consumer electronic devices I've used.

Of course, if the Internet goes down, it becomes a shelf decoration,
but it has been 99.9% reliable over the past two years.  My Internet
service is DSL from an independent local ISP, maybe with Verizon or
Comcast it wouldn't work as well.

Mark

On 10/21/07, Tom <Radiofreetom at gmail.com> wrote:
> Radio continues to have ONE BIG ADVANTAGE over all other media, fixed
> or mobile:  All you have to do is TURN IT ON, and it works.  No need
> to wait for the operating system to load, no waiting for any apps to
> load, no skull sweat deciding which tunes and what order to play
> 'em... push a button, you've got music - or whatever your thing
> is.  (Personally, there has been little or no REAL music since the
> mid 70's, except possibly some few out of Nashville - rare even
> there...but that's another topic.)
> Interesting note here:  transistors took over from tubes in no small
> part because they are "instant on" devices.  I'm tempted to dig out
> one of my tube radios and compare the start time from cold tubes to
> quality sound, to how long it takes a typical computer to boot, load
> the OS, and load and start a streaming audio receiver, the stream to
> connect, buffer, and produce "sound"....
>
> Hmmm
>
> Tom S.
>
> Dana Puopolo wrote:
> >But Rich, we have perhaps ONE decade before broadband Inernet is widely
> >available in your car. How relevant will the radio be then?
>
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