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I'm not sure why I'm bothering collating this set of links, because you'll all flick through the first article, click on the realplayer movie of rectal endoscopy, watch in awed silence, howl in terror and grossed-out intrigue at the end and then leave and never come back to my site. Nonetheless:
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Just wanted to recommend the Evoke digital radio. I've had one for eight months now, and it's worked just fine. Only negatives are the lack of an option to power it by battery, and the single speaker. If you hook it up to a hifi, however, it sounds great.
Of course the other negative is that most of the stations on it play the same crap you get on normal radio, but once you start listening to 6Music and BBC 7 you'll wonder how you live without them.
→ Posted by: Tim at June 10, 2003 3:16 PM
Can I ask you a question about that radio, since I've got you here? Presumably you haven't bought the extra speaker for it, which I understand, since it is a bit of an unnecessary expense. But what I really want to know is could I set it to wake me up with a bit of Radio 4 or would I have to reach over and turn it on?
→ Posted by: Tom Coates at June 10, 2003 3:40 PM
Though there's an accurate clock sent with the radio signal, there's no alarm. I compensated for this by using one of those timers you can get for turning on lights when away on holiday. I have an old analogue one with pins to set the time (to go with my steam powered toaster and wind-up computer), but I think you can timers with digital displays these days. And no, I haven't got the extra speaker - seemed a bit expensive for what it is, to me.
→ Posted by: Tim at June 10, 2003 4:55 PM
It's vaguely scandalous that they can sell something with a clock in it and not have it be able to have a timer set on it. It's such a weird piece of functionality to take out.
→ Posted by: Tom Coates at June 10, 2003 5:33 PM
Whoops - I might have been a bit misleading there. The clock isn't actually part of the radio, but part of the text sent with each station, along with bit-rates, current song, news headlines, and all that fun stuff. (How nice it is to have a conversation about the finer points of digital radio. Believe it or not, I don't often get this opportunity in real life. But don't worry, I'll stop now.)
→ Posted by: Tim at June 10, 2003 7:36 PM
rectal endoscopy?
I think I'll pass on that link. But thanks for sharing!
→ Posted by: :: jozjozjoz :: at June 10, 2003 7:50 PM
I've had a Pure Evoke since Xmas and it's lovely. Don't worry too much about the clock element. It looks great, sounds great, and it re-introduces you to the idea that you can channel surf on the radio.
I haven't bought the extra speaker for it. I've never really felt the need. The only weird thing I've found is that digital radio has a couple of seconds' delay, so if you move between two rooms with the radio on (and one is analogue), you get a sense of deja ecoute.
→ Posted by: Ben at June 11, 2003 6:09 PM
i can't seem to process anything you wrote past "is the rectum is a cinema" link.
now i'm just going to keep thinking about it without clicking on it.
→ Posted by: andrea at June 11, 2003 6:12 PM
What, and Tom isn't on the list of A-list bloggers?
→ Posted by: Seldo at June 14, 2003 3:24 AM
Well of course not! I'm not A-list, I'm Old Skool.
→ Posted by: Tom Coates at June 14, 2003 10:11 AM