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No matter how you look at it an empeg will only play old music.

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maybe YOUR empeg only plays old music.

So if I don't want new music, I don't care, right?

This is good news. Along with everyone else, I too wish to be at the top of the list. Sign me up for two tuners.

If you don't care, I don't care.

As for me, I frequently look for new music to add to my empeg. Or old music I've forgotten about.

Old music I've forgotten about might be a reason to care.

Sign me up for two tuners

Patrick isn't taking any orders yet, he will post details of how to order when he is ready.

Doesn't anyone read threads before replying to them nowadays?

Doesn't anyone read threads before replying to them nowadays?

Preach it, brother!

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And once you experience insanity on a long road trip, you'll never eat wild mushrooms again....

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Been there, done that... (Once you drive US50 - 'The Lonliest Road', and are bored with seeing how fast you really CAN drive, your mind wanders..)

Me.

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As soon as the web-site is up and ready to take orders, I will make an announcement to that effect.

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Aahh... dam. That's what I get for not reading messages. (Althoth that other one, where they'll be "watching the website 24/7 until it's ready" got me there..)

Me.

Booh! :-))

Only wanted to know if there are other people like me who sleep next to the computer to not missing any entry in this golden thread...

Hope that I'll get a tuner, too. One for each customer should be ok. I could imagine that there are armys of people watching the thread and there are "only" 50 tuners for sale at the first try.

By the way: Thanks to everybody, I feel so good with my new empeg and this great community (and my wife feels good if I got my tuner and don't talk about it anymore ;-)).

rolf

Everyone calm down...just set the board to email you when there are new posts and set your email to foward to your cell phone. Easy.

What makes you think you'll stop taking about it? In fact, I'd wager you'd talk more!!

Paul, I am thinking the same as you. My player has been with David for a month due to lack of money to get it repaired. But it should be on its way home now. But during this time I have had a handful of CD's in my car, and the radio. Now I can truly say I hate the radio. It's not until you go without an empeg for a long period of time that you really see how much you NEED it. Yes the withdrawals you go through at first are bad, but not as bad as the long haul. So now I am posed with the question... Tuner or no tuner... I am running my empeg into the aux inputs of another deck now... decisions decisions... and I still need a digital out card!

With XM you buy - the ability to listen to new music without commercials.


I'll bet you $20 right now that by 25th December 2005, commercials will feature on 90%+ of the chanels in the ''basic XM' monthly package, and that the commercial free stations surreptiously move to a higher rate service. Bronze, silver, gold, plaitinum, whatever-you-want-to-call-it-inum, but extra $$$ whichever way you want to llok at it.

Wasn't the 'commercial-free' marketing spin originally used for cable TV?

YES! I just got back from a disappointing job interview and was feeling like hell until....TUNERS!!!!! Can't wait for the release!

Hmm..

I just drove from Atlanta, Georgia to Portland, Oregon this past fall.. Had my Empeg the entire time, and can honestly say that over the entire trip, I never heard the same song twice.

However, I still want to get a tuner.
Why?
Because there are times when I (at least) need something 'fresh' (besides the point 'fresh' may be from the 60-70's..) It may be because I hear a human voice..
Sometimes I like to listen just to see how Classic Rock stations do things differently in different parts of the country. (That may be because I used to work in radio..)
In either case, I often (2x a year?) drive between Atlanta and Denver (1700 miles.. 2738 km for those across the pond.) and find myself channel surfing, at least for a short while, every now and then.. even with my Empeg. (I can do that now, I'm using my radio's aux-in.. Once I get my Empeg really installed, however..)

Me.

I did read the thread, I was responding with enthusiastic sarcasm. Doesn't anyone understand sarcasm these days? Jeez.

Everyone calm down...just set the board to email you when there are new posts and set your email to foward to your cell phone. Easy.


[wipes off screen]

Hmm... you're just begging for people to make pointless posts, just to make your cell phone ring. Like this one. What time is it there? Do you turn your phone off, or will this wake you up out of bed? And if you turn your phone off, isn't that defeating the purpose?

Obnoxiously yours,

Oh, and what if pca starts yet a new thread (in Announcements, say)? Those won't make it to your phone.



*ring*ring*

I'm in with marria01 and sn00p -- first batch limit of 1 each, please!

Yes, I think that it would be the right thing to limit 1 tuner per person at first. Also I'm just wondering how big this thread is going to be, it seems like every time PCA types the word "tuner" you get this HUGE thread

I think at this point that any thread started by Patrick would generate a frenzy!

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Wasn't the 'commercial-free' marketing spin originally used for cable TV?

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I think I remember that. By the time my family got cable, they were already putting commercials in.

The worst part is sometimes the commercials are better than the program playing.

radio is also good to listen to traffic and weather reports, something im currently missing when im dodging tornadoes in the midwest. I love my empeg, but the turner is very important for those news broadcast. The world could be ending and i wouldnt know it... well then again, maybe not having a radio is a good thing.

im dodging tornadoes in the midwest

Oh, sweet - I would be running after them, but I realize I'm probably not in the majority on this one. I dream of the day I can chase supercell storms around.

I dream of the day I can chase supercell storms around.

After spending 9 years in Tornado Alley while growing up, if I never see another tornado again, I wouldn't mind at all.

I guess its different if you have to constantly worry about the threat... in the midatlantic here we are relatively lucky tornado wise. I say relatively - because of the f4 that whacked La PLata off the map, and various other small twisters causing trouble here and there. But nothing like the alley...

I hope you, and anyone here that lives in tornado alley, have a noaa weather radio - it can be a lifesaver. Which brings me back to the tuner... Patrick, does the tuner chip you use incorporate the ability to tune in the wx bands for weather?

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Patrick, does the tuner chip you use incorporate the ability to tune in the wx bands for weather?

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Oooh.. good qurestion.. can the tuner chip be "upgraded"? Yanno, allow tuning to wx channels and other bands?

(I'm guessing that even if it did, the software would have to be changed.. somehow.. To allow the user to tune into one of these frequencies..)

Me.

Oh yes, maybe we can go one step further.
If the bandwidth allows it, we can use it for 145 MHz (hamradio), too. But this should be a much bigger change than for the wx-band. But isn't wx in AM instead of FM?
I suggest to start with radio and see what we can do with it in the second step.

rolf