iPhone;456509 Wrote: > What is the big deal about FM? Does everybody want it to have a record > player and 8 track also?
Please read the thread - particularly references to bandwidth limits (some people have caps) and audio quality (FM almost always better than the internet stream). > Please name me one Squeezebox that has a FM Tuner? You can't Of course - that is the point of the suggestion. > because Slim Devices/Logitech builds Network Media Players (NMP). However, Logitech does build somewhat similar devices with FM radio built-in. See this old post and see if you spot the similarity with Boom http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=334647&postcount=21 > They concentrate their efforts on building the best NMP they can and not > trying to compromise by building an all-in-one. The reasons for this are > probably limitless. I can't speak for them, but I bet part of it is > because they are not after the mass all-in-one market. The are after the > NMP market! The last time that this topic was discussed at any length was around the Boom release. My contention is that by finally providing a device with built-in speakers (Boom) Logitech/Slimdevices chose to enter a different market sector and many (perhaps most) of the vendors in that sector have at least one model internet radio with FM. The Squeezebox Radio brings the price down - which puts it even deeper into the regular consumer market area. The name "Radio" may well lead some people to think that it has conventional radio capability. Many of the devices that it will share shelf-space with do have it - see my blog for a few of them. > It has Internet Radio and if your favorite station isn't streaming then > you need to be yelling at them, not Logitech! I do a lot of spare time stuff with internet radio - and am in contact with broadcasters and station list providers (for example, I am an infrequent editor on the RadioTime lists that are used to power your Squeezebox). All of the FM stations that I listen to are available via internet - see the rest of the thread for some of the reasons why I still use FM at home. -- 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 [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
