Mark Lanctot;456436 Wrote: > Wonder why no one commented on this - Radio has a line in, you can > simply plug an FM radio into it.
I have tried to make a few points concerning bandwidth consumption and existing Logitech products that have conventional radio - and no-one has commented (for or against as far as I remember). However, I'll comment on this one for you ... LineIn ... how about because it would be cumbersome to control and would look messy. My guess is that internet radio listening (not music services like Pandora/Aupeo/Spotify/last.fm) is not as common here as in other places. I see this audience as much more dedicated to listening to what has always been the strong point - locally stored music. As for the general thought expressed in this thread and elsewhere about FM dying away - my guess is that it varies by market ... within the UK it is true that "digital" is growing. In UK FM/AM listening has, in the last year or so, dropped from 69.5% to 66.2% according to the figures collected by RAJAR. Internet radio listening is reported as growing by 10% over the same period ... from 2% to 2.2% I know that stats can hide all sorts of things - e.g. how they are collected, what sources are considered internet (e.g. last.fm probably not included) - but there is a long way to go before internet radio listening catches broadcast (if we add over-the-air broadcast by DAB and radio via digital TV then it grows to over 80%). Source: http://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/quarterly_listening.php How do the figures stack up for other countries? -- Paul Webster Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67502 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
