Slashdot Mirror
RadioShark Is Vaporware No More
DLWormwood writes "Well, after acquiring a reputation for being 'vaporware of the year' from Wired News, MacCentral is reporting that Griffin Technology's radioSHARK is finally shipping. Now maybe I can finally get some sleep while Dr. Demento is recorded by my Mac late at night..."
is time shifting the new buzzword for recording?
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
How is this an "Apple Story?" It's clearly PC or Mac, not just a Mac device. What's the reason for putting this in the Apple section of Slashdot?
Now if only my car radio could have a cool tivo-like feature. I've often been listening to something on NPR or whatever and found myself lost in a thought for am oment only to snap back to reality missing some detail... oh man-o-man. How cool would that be? Although, it would be weird driving and constantly 'boop'ing back to listen to things you missed and I imagine that would only add to the number of bad drivers... or maybe add it to the stearing wheel...
"In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice, they are not."
There's likely to be a great deal of demand for it. Sporting events broadcast by radio, your favorite DJ's zaniness, or in my case, not being able to listen to Fox Sports Radio because I'm still at work but wanting to catch Steve Czaban's show sometime later.
The "when I'm doing something else" part doesn't change, it just makes it more convenient for me to listen to something interesting when I want to.
-- The problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes trouble shoots back.
I agree. About all I want to listen to on the radio is Car Talk, and I can download all of those. There's really nothing compelling on the radio any more. Hell, if I want somebody else picking music for me, I use launch.com, which for $36/year, gives me unlimited, CD quality (better than radio), ad-free, DJ-free music in a ton of different formats, or as my own personal station. I think that radio's time has really come and gone.
I don't respond to AC's.
Some people actually listen to sporting events, local news, commentary, etc... Actually... that's all I use my radio for anymore, if I'm going to listen to music I'll play my own thank you.
Just in time for the Induce Act, and for some sort of chicanery to reverse the Betamax Decision.
Has RadioShark lined itself up to be the first victim?
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
I want to listen to Jim Rome.
I want to listen to John and Ken in Los Angeles.
I can do that with this, because otherwise, i cannot listen to the radio while at work.
there are tons of people - esp. TiVo owners - that often move their hand toward the radio knob in their car wanting to jump back and hear what was said... but then realize that they can't.
Now, if the radio shark makes the "ga-bluck, ga-bluck" TiVo button sound - i'll pay even more for it.
guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.
yes but you cannot save the recordings to your computer. it will queue for a certain amount of time, basically affording you tivo-like pausing / replaying of live broadcasts.
however, you cannot "copy off" these broadcasts and play them at a later date.
all this thing is, is a radio with a pause button.