On Oct 31, 2:36*am, Krypsis wrote:
On 31/10/2010 4:54 AM, John Smith wrote:

On 10/25/2010 4:30 AM, RHF wrote:

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The wife and I have our flatscreens in storage, we have no plans of
getting them out. If our shows are not available on the net, we don't
watch them.

And, lately, I have been just listening to AM on the net, and those
stations which provide streams ... NPR is the FM that I grab, on the net
.... point being, it is getting hard to not realize the fact we could do
without standalone radios ... with probably keep my USB software driven
radios, at least for a while longer.

DRM is just too silly to be bothered with. I don't think the wife and I
will ever want to be bothered with it ... if obama shuts down the
internet, I guess we will all have to go back to BBS's.

Regards,
JS

I don't know about you but the idea of carting an internet enabled
device around just to listen to the radio does not thrill me in the
least. Whenever I am working out in the backyard, my Sangean 505 is with
me and tuned in. Whenever I travel, my Sony 7600 is with me and also
tuned in. Right now I am sitting at my computer and my Sangean is beside
me tuned to BC AM, the cricket in fact. The only time I really listen to
internet radio is when I want to listen to something too distant for
broadcast but unavailable on shortwave.
I will continue to use broadcast radios for the foreseeable future!

Krypsis

So far the limit to Internet Radio {web-based-radio}
is just how 'Wide' {Coverage Area} is your WiFi :
at Home; at Work in your Car/Truck; at the Hotel
you are staying at . . . and the location of your next
Hot-Spot !

Cellphone and iPod type G3 down-loads with subsequent
Play-Back would seem to give more 'mobility' like a
Pocket {portable} AM/FM/SW Radio. But mostly that
is not Real-Time and for the most part AM/FM/SW
Radio does offer Real-Time where you are / anywhere.

it's 'free' over-the-air am & fm shortwave radio
and it is as easy as . . . just listening ~ RHF