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RadioShark Is Vaporware No More

Posted by timothy on from the no-more-sleeping-through-car-talk dept.

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..."

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  1. time shifting? by minus_273 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    is time shifting the new buzzword for recording?

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  2. Re:What is the demand for this? by saundo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  3. Re:What is the demand for this? by DogDude · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  4. is time shifting the new buzzword for recording? by dpilot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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?

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  5. Re:What is the demand for this? by gsfprez · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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