Hi Buddy and all, thanks for that update, Well considering those prices, 
*automatically way_too rich for my blood.  Clark Howard recently talked 
about a WI FI clock radio for $79&Change, but I haven't yet found a link. 
Would be interested to know what others have found.  I want a WI FI model, 
although if it'd also work "wired," that'd be a plus, but I ain't payin no 
300$s for _Any of them.  Thanks again, Danny.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: Internet Radios


> The one for ethernet or modem is $299, and the ethernet or wifi one is
> $349. AT any rate, that's the info I've seen/heard. I have a couple
> issues with this Internet radio player:
>
> 1) It doesn't use one of the commercial databases such as Reciva 
> (http://www.reciva.com
> ). The ones that do rely on something like Reciva, it seems to me,
> suffer from the same problem though: if something happens to the
> service provider that sets up the lists of stations, then what?
> Anyway, there aren't as many stations, and the player doesn't support
> ogg vorbis, and perhaps other formats (Real, for instance).
>
> 2) You set up your presets from a Web page. While you could
> potentially put in all the stations, the stations can't be organized
> by country, genre, etc. So depending on how many stations you set up
> as presets, you could scroll for a long time. That's a big one, IMO;
> an appliance that expensive should allow both sorting of stations and
> the ability to choose them on the fly from the radio itself.
>
> 3) As compared to other off-the-shelf rdios, it is more expensive, in
> some cases considerably so.