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#86252 - 09/04/2002 13:52 WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER?
Alexander
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Registered: 02/05/2000
Posts: 108
Loc: SF Bay Area
http://www.eden2.com/empeg/

Similar to the old "How many tuners would you buy?" poll, but fixing its shortcomings:

- You can say exactly how many tuners you want.

- You can change your answers in the future.

- Contact information (email, optionally phone) is recorded.

- You don't need to be a board member. Serious lurkers welcome!

- You can answer for a variety of pricepoints, so optimal pricing and volume can be established.

- You can say whether you'd pay in advance, thereby reducing the need for "backers" of a manufacturing run.

- Live, detailed results available. (Ok, so the old poll had live results, too...)

Again, that's:

http://www.eden2.com/empeg/

Remember that you're not ordering a tuner, you're just indicating your serious interest in participating in a potential future manufacturing run.

Alex

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#86253 - 09/04/2002 13:54 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: Alexander]
SE_Sport_Driver
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Registered: 05/01/2001
Posts: 4903
Loc: Detroit, MI USA
I love the random changing comments!

Serious inquires only everyone!
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#86254 - 09/04/2002 14:09 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: Alexander]
njdboy
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Registered: 07/01/2002
Posts: 151
Loc: San Jose, CA
This is nice, hopefully it will help in getting the tuners made and sent out to all those who have been waiting patiently.

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#86255 - 09/04/2002 16:02 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: Alexander]
andy
carpal tunnel

Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
It appears that either someone has entered some slightly odd data, or there is a bug:

81 @ US$80 = US$6480 (41 people)
88 @ US$100 = US$8800 (41 people)
71 @ US$120 = US$8520 (39 people)
55 @ US$140 = US$7700 (29 people)
45 @ US$160 = US$7200 (21 people)

Meaning that there are more tuners wanted if they cost $100 than there are in they cost $120...
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#86256 - 09/04/2002 16:26 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: andy]
Alexander
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Registered: 02/05/2000
Posts: 108
Loc: SF Bay Area
Yeah, someone seems to have not consistently erased the default zeroes in all of the boxes, so started sporadically wanting 10 or 20 tuners. I changed them to what I believe the intended entries were, and sent an email to verify.

Alex

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#86257 - 10/04/2002 13:53 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: Alexander]
Satan_X
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Registered: 22/03/2002
Posts: 251
Loc: Ramsey, NJ
just wondering.....what the count is up to....
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#86258 - 10/04/2002 16:50 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: Satan_X]
Shonky
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Registered: 12/01/2002
Posts: 2009
Loc: Brisbane, Australia
Ummm click here?

The link is on the main page but the small fonts do make things hard to read.
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#86259 - 10/04/2002 16:54 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: Shonky]
Satan_X
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Registered: 22/03/2002
Posts: 251
Loc: Ramsey, NJ
so, im slow....but i did check the FAQ first
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#86260 - 14/04/2002 21:40 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: Satan_X]
Satan_X
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Registered: 22/03/2002
Posts: 251
Loc: Ramsey, NJ
lookie....up to 211.....
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#86261 - 15/04/2002 00:44 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: Satan_X]
Alexander
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Registered: 02/05/2000
Posts: 108
Loc: SF Bay Area
Well, sorta. I think the $100-$120 range is a bit more realistic, so 145-178. Making progress.

Somebody poke Drakino to get a riocar.org article, and would a "quick link" at the top of the BBS be out of the question?

And don't forget to tell all your empeg-owning-tuner-needing friends.

Alex

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#86262 - 15/04/2002 04:39 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: Alexander]
ksteele
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Registered: 08/08/2000
Posts: 20
Loc: QLD, Australia
Awesome stuff. My interest is in.

Here is copies of the latest section of the faq's that relate, for those who are too lazy to look it up. You can use this to email / promote to other friends / people you know who bought / are buying empegs.

So get the word out!!!

Cheers,

Kieran

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Place your vote/interest.

http://www.eden2.com/empeg/

These guys are serious, there are people on the board talking about funding manufacturing runs etc. They reallly need about 500+ orders though to do it. So this poll is the results of many months of people bashing the idea around. Essentially sonic blue are not interested in doing it.

The tuner is a truely refined / awesome bit of gear.

If you want to see what it will look like you can put an entry in your config.ini.

You will need to enable config.ini editing if using the following reg key - (can save to a .reg, then run)

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SONICblue\emplode\2.0\Settings]
"allow_edit_config"=dword:00000001

Otherwise jemplode can edit config.ini with no help.

config.ini entry -

fake_tuner=1


Notes : Makes empeg/RioCar think it has a tuner attached when it really doesn't. Allows people to see what the tuner functionality looks like (display, menus, etc..) before purchasing an expensive tuner module, and use of the "PrevVisual" button translation (coming soon in Hijack), which only works via the tuner interface. Also allows trace_tuner if you don't have a tuner. If you have a tuner and "fake_tuner" is activated, it will silently reset "fake_tuner=0" and continue.

FAQ entry on RDS

What RDS features does the tuner support?
(Entry last updated on February 8th, 2002)
If transmitted by the local radio stations, it displays RDS (Radio Data Service) text information, and will display the RDS clock when the display is set to the Info:Radio screen. Note that the RDS clock is separate from the player's internal real-time clock, so there may be a difference between the clock shown in the Info:Radio screen and the clock shown in the other screens.

As of version 2.0 Beta 11, the player also supports RDS-TA (Traffic Announce) and RDS-AF (Alternate Frequency tuning) where available. Please see the software release notes for instructions on how to use these features.

Note that, in the United States, very few radio stations support RDS at all, and even fewer support the advanced features. For those that do support it, the RDS equipment seems to get ignored quite often, almost as if the technicians don't even know it's there. As a result, they often broadcast incorrect information. So the RDS features are essentially useless for most of the United States.

However, in Europe, where RDS is widely supported, it's very cool.

If you own the tuner module in the United States, you can expect to see an RDS-capable station only once in a blue moon. And when you do see one, odds are that you'll get the station's call letters and little else. And there's no guarantee they'll even be the right call letters. If you're in "Info:Radio" mode, the RDS clock might appear once in a while, with a high probablility that it will display an incorrect time.

Main empeg board with links to Jemplode and Hijack etc.

http://empeg.comms.net

Alternatively many people just get a little walkman, and plug it into the aux input. That's what I will be doing for my home docking station if there are still no tunrers when I come to do it.

Cheers

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#86263 - 15/04/2002 05:50 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: ksteele]
pdw
stranger

Registered: 11/02/2002
Posts: 36
I understand that there has been little luck in getting a list of existing owners from SonicBlue. Has anyone approached carplayer.com / funmp3players.com to see if they would be willing to send an email to their customers? Any idea how many units have been sold through these channels?

Paul

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#86264 - 15/04/2002 07:43 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: Alexander]
drakino
carpal tunnel

Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
Somebody poke Drakino to get a riocar.org article

I suppose I could hack the article into the database directly, but I think it would be easier if you wrote and submitted the article instead

I prefer to be an admin of the backside of the site, and not the content. Thats the communities responsibility. Thats why I have made the site to be as community oriented as I can. I still need to give admin access to the boot logos to a few others, but beyond that, if I disappeared off the net for a few months, the site wouldn't stagnate.

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#86265 - 15/04/2002 08:47 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: pdw]
tman
carpal tunnel

Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
I didn't think either of them had that many units in total. I could be wrong however. Most of them were sold via SB.

Probably not a good idea to sell them through carplayer though. Otherwise we'll get the same problem with the last few tuners as we do now with $499 for a 10GB empeg....

- Trevor

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#86266 - 15/04/2002 09:09 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: ksteele]
Satan_X
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Registered: 22/03/2002
Posts: 251
Loc: Ramsey, NJ
Nice little writeup......
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#86267 - 15/04/2002 10:20 Re: WOULD YOU BUY A TUNER? [Re: Alexander]
tonyc
carpal tunnel

Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
Good news that I think may change the focus of this discussion...
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