WEB RADIOS

wowser - I am listening to this also - thanks!!!

an official welcome back from wherever the hell you been keepin yoselfs, there husker. Good to read yer posts. Hopefully someone will speak up. This was the kind of stuff that Timber was the 200 watt guy .

If you're on high speed and install a connection to a good sound system from your computer, you can receive some fantastic stations including 5 channel surround sound. XM and Sirius are, of course, the most highly marketed but I like Radio Free Virgin. www.radiofreevirgin.com One subscription for XM or Sirius, of course, which is now being built into most surround receivers leaves you the option of receiving the signal on your sound system, on you computer or in your car. Pioneer receivers have both built in Sirius and XM receivers so there's nothing to do but subscribe.

Dang, Radio Free Virgin has been taken down -- probably pushed out by XM and Sirius.

Im talking about something else entirely WIz. The wifi radios are, by using internal synthesizers, able to link directly to the www adresses that are pre set in the radio. (One can get updates using a data stick) So the www, like "CBC from EDmunston NB" is on the air all day. I could get any of (presently) 5500+ stations rom around the world. No need for Sirius or XM (whose programming skills are crappy IMHO) Ialready wrote to Sirius (I had a test drive for a year) and I reccomended a TIVO like feature where you could tune to stations with recorded books or something a bit more satisfying than the present crap on there. I actually dislike music in a car, if its really good music, its distracting and my mind engages two halves and blurs out my judgement lobe. Listening to verbal communication doesnt do that for me. Lately Ive been downloading audiobooks and playing them on CD in the trucks or on MP3 in the car.

Yes, I wasn't impressed by the Sirius and XM programming but I don't know if I'd invest in a wifi radio. Most of my customers want Sirius as it has NPR, but XM has an equivalent. Radio Free Virgin had superior programming and could be used like TIVO. Unfortunately, gone -- they couldn't keep their sponsors because there weren't enough subscribers. If they had gone to a car radio turner with their really nice graphics on the panel, that would have been a more expensive add-on. It could have also downloaded or streamed movies (of course, for the back seat passenger) and have a touch screen feature like the Kaleidoscope server available for a home entertainment system if you'd rather purchase one of those instead of a new Jaguar.

I'm sure there's going to be improvements in XM and Sirius and likely some competition with 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. That really does sound wonderful in a car interior as suddently the sound is no longer trapped inside the cabin.
It is strange to be driving along with a full symphony orchestra seated in the four seats of the average auto.

So, nobody"s familiar with these?