I think you really are missing out on the potential of Internet Radio, though the portable devices, as you say, aren’t quite there yet. There are thousands and thousand s of streaming stations worldwide though, and for those of us who live in the sticks, and/or have eclectic taste in music, we’re salivating for the right kitchen counter wireless box.

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You know, if the box could play Pandora or Rhapsody over Wifi OR EDGE alternatively (read: was a music-playing cell phone), I’d consider it. Instead, a device that relies on your having access to an unencumbered wifi access point in order to stream whatever internet radio is active at the moment just seems pointless.

Chances are, you won’t get too many chances to use it away from your base, and in that case, your standard MP3 player could easily replicate something similar.

*shrug*

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I heartily agree that the InFusion is a way cool device with lots of promise for the near…and far off…future.

Terrestrial AM/FM radio sucks more each day. Broadcasters who use cheap bandwidth to make their stations sound “suckier” online are wasting their time and money.

No wonder so many go to XM or Sirrius (13 MILLION) and millions more go to Internet Radio today.

The good broadcasters, not the homogenized Clear Channel conglomerates—are those who realize the potential of their uniqueness in the marketplace.

Advertising to pay the costs of operating a radio station is one thing, but to have such crappy same old - same old stuff in horrendous format presentations is a joke. That’s what we have with much AM & FM radio today. I want to hear GREAT radio…not sloppy crap, be it commercially or by innovative net webcasters.

Radio needs and deserves the competition…and any device that opens the entire world to people, such as the InFusion…while giving the choice of good, bad or indifferent radio worldwide…not limited to your “local only” stations that are a monopoly—is a good thing.

Bring it on, Torrian Wireless!  I’ll buy two right now.

In the car, I only listen to XM. At home, I listen to Internet Radio (including commercial radio simulcasts on the Internet) on my Roku Labs SoundBridge.

And…I work for a commercial radio station and have been in the business, successfully, for 39 years.

Digital radio is a waste. Internet Radio is the future.

And it’s here today.

Max-Fi will change the landscape as we know it…because it’s a digital-on-demand world, people…not a world of $300 half-baked digital radios that can only pick up your local AM or FM stations.

Get with it broadcasters…the time has come.

These devices will only make radio as we know it better…or, there will be fewer bad radio stations around…replaced by innovation, thanks to devices like InFusion and others.

I welcome replies.

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I feel your statement concerning internet radio, “internet radio is really rather stumbling around and looking for its place” is incorrect.
Internet has found its place in devices that I have, Roku Radio and Squeezebox.

Where else can you listen to over 50,000 radio stations, all free and many commercial free?
I can listen to most of my local stations, without a computer, any where I go
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I am in pennslyvania, but enjoy listening to Talk Radio in Ireland and Australia, BBC in the UK, Classic Oldies from the Netherlands and Colorado and Classic music from Italy all with equal or better sound then my local stations.

Recently, I found may radio stations that broadcast old time radio: dragnet, lone ranger and many more.

What I am waiting for is for the satellite companies to find a way to stream user selected internet radio stations along with their premium stations now offered.

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