FM Radio

I am sending this back. I got a 99 cent internet radio app from Itunes that blows this away. Thousands of stations, great quality sound and Pandora, Slacker and others. If you have an Iphone or Ipod touch save your money and check out the internet radio options and services like Last FM,and others. Also since they have their own server, what happens if the company goes away????
Rating: 3 / 5

The product itself is quite good in terms of ease of operation and features; notably having 40 presets that are easy to set. I was dissapointed however that my request to add about 5 stations that are not on the V-Tuner menu was ignored—and this was particularly dissapointing after reading several reviewers exclaiming ecstatically how the stations they requested promptly appeared! The stations I requested had good internet quality and were well worth inclusion. And so, if you have specific internet stations you are interested in that are not currently listed on the V-Tuners menu, do not assume that your “request” will be honored. Incidentally, if you use a “Receiva” internet menu there is no problem in adding your own stations as you simply put them in on their website.
Rating: 3 / 5

This thing is GREAT! And it came right in the nick of time for us too, because recently a great local radio station changed its format, so we don’t have any good stations with reception at our house. We do have ipods and CDs and computers, but the “randomness” of the radio is nice sometimes – you want to hear a song you don’t already have! So this gets that back for us.

The whole thing took about 5 mins to set up. The longest part of the process was me trying to fit the cords through the right slots in our entertainment center. If your wireless connection needs a WEP password, you’ll need to enter that (it’s usually near the barcode on your modem), and you’re pretty much set up after that.

There are a ton of stations to browse, and I believe you can add your own as well. They’re broken down by genre and by area. It was kind of cool to browse stations from around the world, but the ones from those lists I was picking kept giving me some kind of format error. No biggie though, there’s plenty to choose from. A lot of the stations also have a music option and a podcast option. Haven’t checked this out yet, but sounds cool. There is a little info given in a summary for each station and favoriting stations or viewing recent stations is easy.

No wireless reception problems here, and it sounds great! Note that if you don’t have an in/out audio on the stereo you want to connect to, they do provide a little headphone jack adapter – a nice touch. Volume works fine too – often with these things you have to turn the volume all the way up on both devices to hear, but there’s a nice balance here and no problems.

Negatives – does seem a bit pricey. If I were paying for this, I’d expect a price point of no more than $80 or so. Also, there are NO buttons on the device itself (not even power). So keep track of that little remote, bc if you lose it, you’re SOL! I gave it minus one star for these 2 reasons. [NOTE: In October, the battery on the remote died, and lo and behold, I couldn't use the thing because it was stuck on a country station my husband picked. Fine again after we purchased new batteries.]

All in all, I’m thrilled with this and I’ll definitely use it a ton!
Rating: 4 / 5