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Internet Radio Hits The Road
SAN DIEGO -- November 15, 2007: Internet-radio company Slacker Inc. is taking early orders for its new Slacker Portable Radio Player, which lets personalized Slacker programming be heard anywhere, even when the device is not connected to WiFi or a network.
The Slacker Portable is not a streaming audio player, but a storage and playback device designed to refresh its content from a Slacker user's personalized stations when connected via WiFi or USB. It comes in two-, four-, and eight-gigabyte models, starting at $299. It's expected to ship by December 13.
"With the Slacker Portable Radio Player, for the first time, people can pay their personalized radio stations wherever they go," said Slacker CEO Dennis Mudd. "We've created a groundbreaking portable music device that lets people play their favorite music without working at it, whenever they want to listen."
Meanwhile, American Media Services/Internet has tested how well its 90-plus streamed formats travel, driving from San Jose to San Francisco and back while streaming AMSi programming over a laptop equipped with a Verizon AirCard.
The object was to monitor, over a 100-mile test route, signal drop-out and rebuffering and how smoothly the signal was handed from one cell tower to the next.
"The near-flawless signal we experienced all along this 100-mile round trip clearly demonstrates that we are witnessing a huge shift in technological capacity and the true emergence of a new digital medium," said AMSi President/CEO Reed Bunzel, who conducted the test with company VP/Engineering Laramie Guest.
"The underlying incontrovertible truth," Bunzel said, "is that Internet radio no longer is tied to a cable and a surge protector. It is just as portable as terrestrial radio, it doesn’t have to appeal to a mass audience, it can be personal and interactive in nature, and almost anyone can join the club."
AMSi plans to conduct similar tests in other markets over the coming months.
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