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The Replay Radio PC product works great. I use it all the time. Of
course it's PC based, and you need to be somewhat PC-centric to use
it, but it will do all the nifty features of a Replay TV, including
picking shows from a guide, recording at preset times, and you can
even skip over ads with the optional Replay Player add-on.
The Replay Radio home page is here:
www.replay-radio.com
Q16@EARTHLINK.NET (DAN) wrote in message news:<5e3c0f29.0407262012.5ff64c71@posting.google.com>...
> > >Don't you think a "Replay Radio" product would be successful?
> >
> > There *is* a "free" down-loadable application called
> > Replay Radio see www.replay-radio,com but it's disappointing. Obviously what would be pleasing is a stand alone or car radio, beach radio, walkman, whatever, that you could freeze while listenning, like you can do with replay and tivo. Now its so nice to hear other people think like me, as in
> > >Don't you think a "Replay Radio" product would be successful? I
> think it might indeed be successful, but at the same time would do a
> lot of damage if popularized to satellite radio and commercial radio,
> the on going de3livery systems. Sonce profitability trumps consumer
> delight nearly every time, (nearly or regularly) don't be looking for
> one of these replay radios any time soon. But for your living room
> using a tivo system audio only, not for recording mind you but for the
> convenience of pausing while listenning, doesn't seem to have any
> forseeable difficulties. use the rca inputs, as though you were
> recording from a vcr, but hook up a radio insteasd of the vcr as the
> sound source.
>
> Plus, your 40 hour video recorder becomes an 800 hour audio I know
> that because my dish network has music only sources, and that showed
> this great increase in capacity. I hope I can do this audio only
> radio thing, and use my cd collection as the source. That would give
> me the thousands of songs of the largest ipod, or more. Might not
> index as well, but its one heck of a random source system for my
> entire music collection, which is at least 2000+ hours since I had the
> best time with Napster. What a loss to the public good that
> was. Now I go to the library and take out up to a hundred cds at a
> time, download them to my harddrive, and now, hopefully, to my 60 gig
> incredible number ofr hours of music. I don't know, maybe its only me,
> but I like a continuous flow of music of my choice that I can stop or
> skip back with ease, like tivo and replay, but, its so clear to me how
> nice the audio only tivo would be pumped through a big amplifier.
>
> But the radio replay raido idea, just for listenning to am talk radio
> at home and skipping commercials, pausing forincoming phone calls or
> trying to get past the screener, well, that's a wonderful product. I
> will probably have mine up and running soon, and then rarely use it.
> But that's the idea. having some tools to use or show off once in a
> while. But as I said, there would be a supply-side reluctance to
> produce a tivo-like radio. Not because of concerns about consumer
> interest. It does appear to be a likable useful convenient product,
> potehntialy lucrative. So maybe they'll bring one out and promote
> it. I am certain no such thing currently exists. Have the evey
> thought of it? No way to tell. Should we pester them to think about
> it? Probably a waste of time. Not every likely product sees the
> light of day.
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