iPhone;456693 Wrote: > Bandwidth limitation are not my problem nor Logitech's for that matter. > And most people that listen to FM will already have an FM tuner. And if > its that important to them, I believe that one can add an FM Tuner Card > to ones PC and use the proper plugin to have FM radio sent to any player > on the Network?
However, someone who buys a self-contained SB-Boom or SB-Radio and who listens to radio (internet or regular) may well be the ones who would not want a PC running all of the time. A mode of operation further endorsed by the Touch ability to play music from local SD/USB device. > Problem solved without adding the cost of a Tuner to the players I buy! No problem - make a new model and call it the SB Radio+ and don't buy it yourself. > Once I had the ability to listen to "My Music" all day without changing > a CD, I no longer needed the commercials and crap the radio stations > push all day anyway. Ah - so perhaps we need more input from those that do use a radio. Maybe it is a UK (or even Europe) thing but we have stations that do not play many adverts. You have PRS stations in USA with very few adverts. As a reminder: Line-in solution. Boom and Radio have the facility - but control limited (tuning, volume, on/off). No relay around the house to other SB devices Sonos has line-in facility - with relay around the house to multiple players (same issue with control of the radio) Roku: Soundbridge Radio (FM and AM along with regular facilities) Reciva powered devices: Many brands with FM (in addition to streaming) including Tangent (I have one), Lenco, DNT, Revo, Roberts, Sangean, Sanyo, Sonoro, Tevion Frontier-Silicon / vTuner powered devices: Many brands with FM (in addition to streaming) including Denon, Grace, Pure, Revo, Roberts, Teac, Tivoli Plus Philips and Sony There are probably others that I have forgotten. Now - if the USB input of Touch could take a USB radio (such as Griffin RadioShark or AVerMedia USB Radio) and control it - and even better ... could make the available to other SB devices as an audio source then there is a good solution. Such an approach is now discussed elsewhere in this forum. It would require Touch (more expensive that Radio) and a 3rd-party device (perhaps 30 - 50 USD) but it could be a way to test the market if Logitech Stream Media do not believe that there is sufficient demand (they could ask Logitech non-streaming folks how their devices with FM are selling and if the radio part is used by the iPod dock generation) -- 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
