Interviews with Digital Media Thought Leaders
Obsolesence of Radio
Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on May 31, 2007
If you would like to learn how satellite radio might become obsolete, this interview is for you.
Our guest today is Avikk Ghose who is the Vice President of Business Development at Mercora.
Historically, when we have wanted to listen to music in our cars most of us have relied upon the CD player or broadcast radio. More recently some of us have subscribed to satellite radio and others have adapted their iPods to their cars.
Ultimately, perhaps the best way to get music in our automobiles will be to stream it from our PCs across the Internet. That way we can listen to anything that we have stored on our computers. Increasingly, for a fixed monthly fee, cellular carriers are starting to offer data plans without monthly limitations on the number of bytes transferred. This can make it attractive for early adopters to consider services that will stream music from their computer’s digital collection to their cell phones. If such phones are equipped with Bluetooth, or similar, adapters the users will be able hear the music via the car’s stereo system.
Mercora offers a service for $50 a year that enables just such an application. Not only that, but you’ll be able to get over 1,000 Internet radio stations as well as podcasts. The service works with any Windows-Mobile enabled device.
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Tags: broadcast radio, cellular phones, digital media, digital music, iPod, mobile phones, radio, satellite radio, smart phones
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Another thing I learned is that you can record streaming music if you stream, then hook that computer to the digital input on another computer and record. Interesting way to get music files.