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If you listen to internet radio a lot... i do then i have been waiting for a reasonable priced WiFi radio to come out which was not over the £100 mark like most at present.

Aldi this thursday are doing a WiFi radio for under £65 !
This works without a pc via your wireless connection

Gets all stations listed on reciva.com and if its not on there you can add it to reciva via the website.
 
I've got a couple of DAB digitals. One in my bedroom and one in the lounge. Quite happy with them.
 
As i work for the company named above i will be having a play this week :)
 
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DAB is good but there's only 1 Jazz station which is run by people who have no interest in Jazz. There are no stations on DAB that play Country, Folk, Religious, Avant Garde, Christmas, Blues etc etc. I'll stick to my computer and www.kcsm.org in San Francisco & Serious Jazz in Florida (http://www.wdna.org/) for the best Jazz around.
 
I think that most of you have missed the point - this is not DAB.

PCWorld (of all places) have one for £50:

Logik IR100 Internet Radio
Product description
Listen to over 5000 radio stations over a wireless network with this internet radio. Stream audio files from you PC over a wireless network. The IR100 has five preset stations and is mains powered.

# Connectivity - Wireless broadband needed
# Power - Mains power
# Presets - 5 presets
# Other - WiFi enabled
# Other - Audio file streaming from PC
# Other - Clock/ alarm

PCWorld: search for item code 901880
 
I did make a post in here last night, but it ( and several in other threads) has disappeared!!!
I am hoping Creative will let us know how good it is when he gets it home; although I personally would like one I can plug into my main HiFi down stairs and use my 4ft high speakers instead of the teeny weeny pair in a radio.

I do know the difference; DAB is poor quality and getting worse as they cut the bit-rate, an mp3 stream at the same bit-rate as DAB sounds far superior.
Many DAB streams are now little better than AM radio quality unless you listen via FreeView or Sky.
 
I currently have a Morphy Richards Internet Radio and its good, though it was fussy at first and needed a firmware upgrade before it would stay connected to my router.

My old Logik IR100 buzzed a lot, and even after a fix posted on the Reciva forums, it still buzzed. Completely useless as a bedside radio! I have been told that the recently released ones for £50 don't buzz, but I can't confirm that.

I much prefer the audio quality of 128k+ MP3/WMA/48k+ AAC Internet radio over DAB. DAB is a joke, stations are being reduced drastically to poor quality and/or mono just to fit in more radio stations or data onto ensembles. If you stay away from the major radio stations, you can find some good sounding, decent quality radio stations on the Internet.

One of the major reasons I won't go for a cap on my broadband connection either, as I use the radio a lot but it varies. For a 128k stream, it can take up about 60MB an hour!
 
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has anyone here brought one of the DRM frequency radios ?
 
There are a couple of DRM radios floating about in my family but they tend to all look pretty odd and nobody bothers to use them. I was kind of hoping DRM would bring in a degree of multimedia display too, like a cut-down TV but with pictures/text alongside the audio (no video) but this doesn't seem to have happened.
 
There are a couple of DRM radios floating about in my family but they tend to all look pretty odd and nobody bothers to use them. I was kind of hoping DRM would bring in a degree of multimedia display too, like a cut-down TV but with pictures/text alongside the audio (no video) but this doesn't seem to have happened.

Wasn't DAB supposed to offer that as well? on mine i've got a 1inch display with a few lines of text. Hardly earth shattering technology :)
 
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