Seriously, what would be the right forum for a product idea? This one looks as good as any here.
[Edit] If anyone knows of forums where nontechnical people with vague concepts are welcome to bounce ideas for others to run with, let me know. This one isn't a star, just seemed like it was a good crowd to ask opions of with this blend of young consumer oriented entertainment tech. [/Edit]
Was just thinking about iPods and the Dell/Creative Labs versions and it occured to me...what's next? 80gig? 800? Just how many thousands of hours of mp3s does anyone need? Some might have a FM tuner too, other mp3 products do, why's that? Because sometimes you want to hear something you don't already have.
XM and Sirius seem cool, might be getting one in the near future. I like talk radio, news, old time radio programs, music too, audiobooks if they did them...hey...wait (here comes the idea)
What about a merging of the two, got your portable mp3 player with XM built in that will allow you to record (but not transfer off the device) what you're listening to. TiVo of audio. Here would be the killer part - scheduled recording. Say there's a program on at 2 but you're at work, it records it for you. Like to listen to NPR's ATC, but find some segments annoying? It's downloaded with each segment as a track, just skip to next. Same with Fox Radio news, C-Net, whatever you've had it record. While many things may be repeated, this lets you make sure you don't miss a program, concert, whatever and have it ready to play when you're ready.
For music it wouldn't be a huge advantage since songs change every couple minutes, but even then you could record streams of your favorite genre and listen later with the ability to skip ahead on songs you don't like.
RIAA shouldn't have a concern. Only way to get the content off would be the same as recording XM from the analog out live. If you don't have XM, you still have a mp3 player. If you don't have any mp3s to tote you still have your XM.
Curious if this sounds like a great product or too much of a niche tech toy? Any downsides that I'm not seeing aside from cost?
[Edit] If anyone knows of forums where nontechnical people with vague concepts are welcome to bounce ideas for others to run with, let me know. This one isn't a star, just seemed like it was a good crowd to ask opions of with this blend of young consumer oriented entertainment tech. [/Edit]
Was just thinking about iPods and the Dell/Creative Labs versions and it occured to me...what's next? 80gig? 800? Just how many thousands of hours of mp3s does anyone need? Some might have a FM tuner too, other mp3 products do, why's that? Because sometimes you want to hear something you don't already have.
XM and Sirius seem cool, might be getting one in the near future. I like talk radio, news, old time radio programs, music too, audiobooks if they did them...hey...wait (here comes the idea)
What about a merging of the two, got your portable mp3 player with XM built in that will allow you to record (but not transfer off the device) what you're listening to. TiVo of audio. Here would be the killer part - scheduled recording. Say there's a program on at 2 but you're at work, it records it for you. Like to listen to NPR's ATC, but find some segments annoying? It's downloaded with each segment as a track, just skip to next. Same with Fox Radio news, C-Net, whatever you've had it record. While many things may be repeated, this lets you make sure you don't miss a program, concert, whatever and have it ready to play when you're ready.
For music it wouldn't be a huge advantage since songs change every couple minutes, but even then you could record streams of your favorite genre and listen later with the ability to skip ahead on songs you don't like.
RIAA shouldn't have a concern. Only way to get the content off would be the same as recording XM from the analog out live. If you don't have XM, you still have a mp3 player. If you don't have any mp3s to tote you still have your XM.
Curious if this sounds like a great product or too much of a niche tech toy? Any downsides that I'm not seeing aside from cost?
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