More Competition For HD Radio…

Monday, January, 5, 2009 by Mel Phillips.

Sanyo has one-upped HD Radio with a stand-alone unit that combines FM and Internet radio signals.  Top that, HD Radio!  The Sanyo R227 also has an ethernet jack for use with a computer.  It’s a clock radio if you choose to put it beside your bed.  It won’t toast your bread or brew your coffee but can be used in the kitchen or any other room.  It even comes with a remote with which you can tune up to several thousand Internet radio stations - 2,163 in the U.S. alone and your favorite FM stations…

The Sanyo R277 will be available in the U.S. this month.  Online retailers taking pre-orders have priced it at about $150.  As with everything else this radio has some drawbacks.  It doesn’t have AM radio, it looks like a medic alert call box and reviews have rated sound quality so-so but Sanyo is on the right path in combining terrestrial and Internet radio…

I hope Sanyo, now owned by Panasonic, or some other manufacturer can come up with a stereo tuner that combines the Internet with AM and FM radio and price it reasonably.  Now that would be an attractive radio…

10 Timeline Memories:

1. 1896] A radiant discovery: Austrian Wilhelm Rontgen discovers the type of radiation that becomes known as the X-Ray. The public scoffs saying they can see right through this ruse…
2. 1940] “One, one, one“: The first test of FM radio is heard by the FCC. It will be one year before radios with FM capability will give the public new static free signals…
3. 1948] Stop and smell the roses: Warner Brothers-Pathe shows the first color newsreel which contains the Tournament of Roses Parade and highlights of the Rose Bowl Game.  In the game Michigan crushed USC 49-0…
4. 1957] Curtains: Jackie Robinson retires rather than play for the crosstown Giants, a team he was traded to by the Brooklyn Dodgers…
5. 1972] Outta Space: President Richard Nixon orders development of the space shuttle…
6. 1981] Ripper zipped: Police in England arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of the “Yorkshire Ripper” murders of 13 women…
7. 1993] Well hung: The state of Washington executes Westley Allan Dodd, an admitted child sex killer in America’s first legal hanging since 1965…
8. 1994] ‘Happy Trails’: Former House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill dies from colon cancer at 81…1998] Sonny Bono, pop-star turned politician is killed when he crashes into a tree while skiing in South Lake Tahoe (CA) at 62…
9. 2000] Ellll-e-uhnnnn: INS Commissioner Doris Meissner rules that 6-year old Elian Gonzalez “belongs with his father” and must be returned to Cuba. Any day now Elian will be elected president of Cuba…
10. 2004] I’m Confessin’: After 14 years of denials, Pete Rose publicly admits that he bet on baseball while manager of the Cincinnati Reds. The world is not shocked by this admission…

Music Memories:

• 1973] Released on this date: “Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.” - Bruce Springsteen…
• 1980] “Please Don’t Go” - KC & Sunshine Band…

“Happy Birthday…happy birthday“:

Brooklyn Sudano (28), Marilyn Manson (40), Pamela Sue Martin (56), Chris Stein (59), Ted (Isaac of ‘Love Boat’) Lange (61), Diane Keaton (63), Charlie Rose (67), Robert Duvall (78), Walter Mondale (81) and legendary St. John’s basketball coach Lou Carnesecca (84)…

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