Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio
If your initial reaction to the Audio-Technica infrared speaker was, “pfff, pointless,” then we welcome you to our party of ambivalence. Still, let’s all ferment in their madness just for the moment, mkay? The AT-SP550TV provides a directed stream of 2W (1W + 1W) stereo audio at a distance of about 7-meters (23-feet). So instead of blasting the sound from your bigazz flat panel across the room, they relocate the speaker to the viewer thereby reducing ambient noise pollution for others in the house. That way, mama can watch TV from the kitchen while baby is lulled to sleep by the wounding glow of consumer narcissism. The unit operates for up to 10 hours off standard alkalines and includes a headphone jack in the speaker section to keep things totally on the hush hush. See, there is some magic to the madness after all. Available in Japan starting June 22nd for ¥16,800 or about $138.
Filed under: Portable Audio, Wireless
For the XM Radio subscribers who haven’t patiently waited to hastily cancel your subscription just yet, we’re sure you’re well aware that the outages from yesterday are still lingering on. Reportedly, “software problems resulted in the loss of one of the network’s four satellite signals,” and while it expected to have everything back to normal by last night, sometime today is looking more likely. The company stated that “the problem occurred during the loading of software to a critical component of the satellite broadcast system,” and while XM has urged listeners to tune in online if possible, we all know this doesn’t solve much. Notably, analysts are already pondering just how much loyalty (and cashflow) XM will lose from such an outage, and while we won’t bother to guess, each passing minute of dead air won’t do the customer satisfaction surveys any favors.
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Iriver hasn’t exactly made it a secret that it’s planning to release an 8GB
clix 2 sooner or later, but the folks at clixhere! have now published what they claim to be the first pics of the much-desired device, although they unfortunately don’t have much in the way of details to go along with ‘em. As you can see above, it certainly looks like a clix 2, with the notable addition of red stripe running around the edge of the device. Of course, we’ll have to wait for iriver’s announcement to get the official word on that and any other possible changes, although we don’t suspect it’ll be all that different than 4GB clix 2 we got our
hands on last month.
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Iriver hasn’t exactly made it a secret that it’s planning to release an 8GB
clix 2 sooner or later, but the folks at clixhere! have now published what they claim to be the first pics of the much-desired device, although they unfortunately don’t have much in the way of details to go along with ‘em. As you can see above, it certainly looks like a clix 2, with the notable addition of red stripe running around the edge of the device. Of course, we’ll have to wait for iriver’s announcement to get the official word on that and any other possible changes, although we don’t suspect it’ll be all that different than 4GB clix 2 we got our
hands on last month.
Filed under: Portable Audio, Wireless
We’re sure this has precisely nothing to do with the Opie and Anthony situation, but we’re hearing that XM has temporarily stopped broadcasting — Orbitcast claims they haven’t had a signal since noon EST, with reports to them and us about service outages nationwide. Anyone else having problems with their XM feed? Sound off in comments!
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Filed under: Portable Audio, Wireless
We’re sure this has precisely nothing to do with the Opie and Anthony situation, but we’re hearing that XM has temporarily stopped broadcasting — Orbitcast claims they haven’t had a signal since noon EST, with reports to them and us about service outages nationwide. Anyone else having problems with their XM feed? Sound off in comments!
Update: Orbitcast got the following statement from XM: “We are experiencing a temporary degraded performance issue, which has affected some of our customers. We expect to return to normal service levels this evening.”
