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Posted Sep 18th 2007 8:02AM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Portable Audio
It's been nearly a year since we've heard from Sangean, but the company is hitting back with a swank new WiFi internet radio that's shaped a good deal like its past units. The WFR-20 offers up "direct access to over 6,000 Internet Radio stations (and 21,242 on-demand streams) in 250 locations from 60 genres," and you can organize your favorites in the My Stations folder. Additionally, it's designed to operate with or without a PC, and if you have a networked computer nearby with Windows Media Player, you can have "full access to your digital media library using the UPnP Server." Furthermore, you'll find a three-line display, four alarms, an aux input, dual five-watt speakers, and a wireless remote to boot, but there's no word on a price or release date just yet.
Haven't you heard?
IBOC HD is the future of radio.
This whole IP-delivered streaming stuff via Wi-Fi, Cellular IP, or Wi-Max is just a hocus-pocus.
Get on board dammit.
The public isn't going to embrace an easy-to-use technology that works.
...especially if it has mass-distribution.
Radio stations won't want to bother with an unlimited amount of IP streams with fixed operations costs, either.
And what if the bandwith and devices via these wireless technologies offered the ability to do album-art, song-and-title, links to additional data, and direct-purchase? IBOC promises this someday. The internet can't do that now. Why would someone come up with such a hair-brained scheme?
Geez.
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