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Internet Radio Coming to Cars
NewsMax ^ | 7/27/05 | Limbacher

Posted on 07/27/2005 8:04:37 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

Move over XM and Sirius. A new technology allows Internet radio to be heard through a car stereo system.

"iRadio," designed by Motorola, uses a specially designed cell phone as an intermediary between the car radio and a personal computer.

Subscribers will choose six Internet radio channels and download them from a computer into the phone, the Chicago Tribune reports.

When iRadio is on, six buttons on the car radio will correspond to the six Internet channels loaded into the phone.

It will also be accessible for listening on phones equipped to handle the new technology.

The service is now being tested in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and is expected to cost from $5 to $7 a month.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: dc; internet; internetradio; iradio; losangeles; motorola; news; radio
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1 posted on 07/27/2005 8:04:38 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I don't see it replacing XM or Sirus until the Cell Phone companies can beat them on subscription price. I doubt it will happen and in many parts of the country it will be unavailable due to the lack of cell towers.


2 posted on 07/27/2005 8:09:35 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

This is what I've been wanting (best solution would be for my internet radio favorites to be added to Sirrus).

Alternate scheme is for me to just buffer off the archives of the programs I like, and burn them to CD. While it isn't live, I can hear the complete broadcast.


3 posted on 07/27/2005 8:14:33 AM PDT by weegee (If HATE is not a family value, then CHILD ABUSE (i.e. abortion) is not a choice.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

well if the connection isn't any better than cell phone connections, XM and Sirius have absolutely NOTHING to worry about.
using a cell phone tend amount to communicating with smoke signals. LOL


4 posted on 07/27/2005 8:14:46 AM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection; All

Another nail in the coffin on old radio..


5 posted on 07/27/2005 8:15:37 AM PDT by KevinDavis (the space/future belongs to the eagles, the earth/past to the groundhogs)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

I've got cable in my car, but I can't go very far.


6 posted on 07/27/2005 8:15:50 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

ooooh, six whole channels. wow!


7 posted on 07/27/2005 8:26:31 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (When you're ready to have a mature discussion about the Green Lantern, you have my email address.)
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To: darkwing104
I'm still kicking myself for not getting into XMSR below 30. I didn't have the money at 25-26 and it shot up before I did. I suspected that it'd go to the 35-40 range, but not this quickly.

Oh, well, hindsight and all.

Hmmmm, SIRI is still under 7 ... of course, if one of their satellites goes out, they're toast, but what are the odds of that.

TS

8 posted on 07/27/2005 8:30:02 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (When you're ready to have a mature discussion about the Green Lantern, you have my email address.)
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Siri has a spare sat. xm does not .
I bought siri at $3 and sold at 7 . its a see saw stock.
buy now and wait for stearn hype in 06.


9 posted on 07/27/2005 8:38:32 AM PDT by sopwith (don't tread on me)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Looks like I'm ahead of the technology curve! I've been listening to my Mp3's by patching my IPOD through my car stereo for over a year. I just recently started downloading IMAO-Podcast to listen to in the car. Turns out that a podcast has to be pretty damned good for me to be listening to it on my car. On the other hand, I drive in places where there is almost NO radio reception. When you get sick of CD's it's awesome to listen to whatever's on your Mp3 player. You can get one of these stereos with the 3.7mm jack at any Circuit City or Bestbuy.


10 posted on 07/27/2005 8:40:21 AM PDT by Capn TrVth
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To: darkwing104

Can you imagine how geeky one would have to be to be listening to a podcast on a cellphone? heh. "Oh-no Moto"


11 posted on 07/27/2005 8:42:32 AM PDT by Capn TrVth
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To: KevinDavis

How does iPod fit in?


12 posted on 07/27/2005 8:43:38 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection (I take the Ginsburg)
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The hurdle here is not getting "internet radio" into the car, its getting the internet into the car. Once the internet is in the car, of course internet radio can be brought in easily.

The issue here, of course, is how does one get a fast enough internet connection into the car in order to be able to listen to an internet radio station, let alone jump back in forth between six stations.

I don't think Sirius and XM have much to worry about.

13 posted on 07/27/2005 8:45:52 AM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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Can you imagine how geeky one would have to be to be listening to a podcast on a cellphone? heh. "Oh-no Moto"

Once you get pass license agreements it probably will be a future must have toy. People will buy it.


14 posted on 07/27/2005 8:48:27 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: darkwing104

Totally agree. This is speciality branding at its worst.


15 posted on 07/27/2005 8:48:58 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Rodney King
getting the internet into the car. Once the internet is in the car, of course internet radio can be brought in easily.

I think it may have a potential market for GPS navigation system. It would be a useful device for real-time road conditions alternate routes around accidents...etc.


16 posted on 07/27/2005 8:52:26 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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I already scream daily at cell phone technology, I'm now going to count on it for radio? What's this, 6 stations?


17 posted on 07/27/2005 9:00:33 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Jabba the Hutt's bigger, meaner, uglier brother.)
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To: darkwing104

We're looking at XM .....anyone know if we can pipe it from our Pick-Up to our TRAILER when we're out in the far forests of this great nation.....and still get a lot of stations? Anyone think Sirius or XM is better?


18 posted on 07/27/2005 9:02:27 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Our military......the world's HEROES!)
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To: Rodney King

Seems, once the "internet radio is in the car" we'll want the INTERNET so we can be ONLINE with Free Republic!!! Who cares about the RADIO!


19 posted on 07/27/2005 9:03:40 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Our military......the world's HEROES!)
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We have Sirius and if you like Jimmy Buffett they have a new Margaritaville channel that plays a lot of that type of music and much more. It is great!


20 posted on 07/27/2005 9:04:05 AM PDT by babaloo
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