Internet Radio £49.99 at Currys or PC WORLD

dinglebert

ShaunJUK wrote: »

If you buy a laptop or Pc you get a booklet of vouchers worth over £300 at the moment, there is one in there for another £10 off the radio bringing it down to £39.99.

This discount could be applied without a voucher

How? Would be interested at £40

trinity1_2

Kentish wrote: »

Bought one of these today for an elderly relative who wanted to listen to some exotic foreign radio channels - works a treat and much simpler than trying to teach her how to use a computer! Worth £50 just to see the smile on her face!

I'd like to get one of these for my mum who to likes listening to foreign stations. However, is this device able to receive all stations from the internet just as you were from a pc?

ms_pokerteam

trinity1 wrote: »

I'd like to get one of these for my mum who to likes listening to foreign stations. However, is this device able to receive all stations from the internet just as you were from a pc?

Yes

ramellous1

How much download capacity do these radio streams use? If I have a 2gb cap, how long would it take to use it up?

Altarf

At 44kbs (which most streams seem to run at) that works out to about 20MB an hour.

Mal27

Altarf wrote: »

At 44kbs (which most streams seem to run at) that works out to about 20MB an hour.

Just to add to this, theoretically it's around 20MB, but I've been watching my router's bandwidth graphs, and a 44kb/s station actually uses about 55Kb/s, so it's more like 25MB.

buglawton

There is a new streaming technique called Abacast that uses some sort of peer-to-peer technology. it means never a server full message, endless people can listen one low budget station. But these internet radios don't handle this method. Would be good to see that such sets are upgradeable to the new technology.

Kentish

trinity1 wrote: »

I'd like to get one of these for my mum who to likes listening to foreign stations. However, is this device able to receive all stations from the internet just as you were from a pc?

You can see the list of channels available from Reciva's website:
https://www.reciva.com/index.php?option=com_cloud&action=cloud&type=location

buglawton

Kentish wrote: »

You can see the list of channels available from Reciva's website:
https://www.reciva.com/index.php?option=com_cloud&action=cloud&type=location

It was interesting to sort the UK ones by popularity

grumpycrab

Just bought this (too easy with PCWorld Order and Collect...)
THE GOOD
Price
It works!
Good speaker
BBC archive (or whatever its called)
You can turn off the display (for night-time)
Sleep Timer
THE BAD
Failed "the wife" test - too big.
Buttons need lights and/or text which can be read easily
Power supply hum when in standbye.
Sleep Timer - need a unique Sleep Timer button
Need a Snooze button/bar
Getting out of "BBC archive" mode to a different station is too difficult
THE UGLY
The alarm is horrible. Why not just go straight to radio?
Power supply interference when not in stand-bye. How did this get past QC?