Rio Home Receiver at Tiger Direct for $99.99!!!!

[Zwingle]

Good price....lowest I found was $152 on Pricegrabber and $169 on Pricewatch......link Yes, I know Tiger Direct has terrible Reseller Ratings....I have never had a problem from them, so I ignore the ratings.

Stream Digital Music From Your PC To Any Room in Your House!... The HOTTEST NEW DIGITAL MUSIC DEVICE! And we've got if for less! Enjoy high-quality digital music anywhere! Connect the Sonic Blue Rio Receiver to any phone jack---in any room of your home or office---then access your PC and stream in digital music! Play your digital music collection without interfering with your PC's operation! Surf the web or check e-mail while you listen! Supports MP3 and WMA audio formats! Manages thousands of songs! Includes remote control!
Enjoy your digital music collection in any room in your house. Enjoy music where it was meant to be heard - outside of the home office. Set up the Rio Receiver in any room of your house with an available phone jack, or Ethernet jack. The Rio Receiver accesses music on your PC without interfering with your PC's operation. Check e-mail and browse the Web - all while your digital music collection is playing in another room.
Control the Rio Receiver using the full-function remote, just like your other stereo components. There's no need to interrupt your activity when skipping a track or changing playlists. Don't stop at one - put a Rio Receiver in every room to enjoy your music anytime, anywhere. One computer can provide music easily to 8 Rio Receivers at a time!

? The Rio Receiver Uses Your PC To Stream Digital Audio!
? Works Seamlessly With Your Existing Home Phone Lines*
? Get The Most From Your CDs and Digital Music Collection!
? Compatible With Ethernet and PNA Networks
? Supports MP3 and WMA Formats
? 2X 10-Watt Power Amp For Speakers!
? RCA Output For Connecting To Amplier
? Manages Thousands of Songs
? Search By Artist, Genre, Title or Album!
Simple to setup and use!
? Enjoy your entire music collection
from any room in your home!
? NO NEW WIRES! Just plug the Rio Receiver and your PC into a phone jack!*
? Use your PC while enjoying music!
? Music is streamed from your PC to the Rio Receiver at 10Mbps for the highest possible audio quality!
* Requires HPNA or Ethernet network. HPNA PCI card provided if you currently have no home network. Accepts both RJ-11 PNA and RJ-45 Ethernet connections.

 

[AU Tiger]

Anyway to use this on a wireless network?

 

[ScAndal]

I have one of these and they are great, although they do not handle big music collections. I have 10,000 songs and it pukes! I don't think they are ever going to release a new firmware to fix this either.

ScAndal

 

[Scyber]

<< Anyway to use this on a wireless network? >>



Well, I know you can configure linksys WAPs as ethernet bridges. So you would hook it up to this device via the ethernet port and it would connect to your existing WAP. Of course that is kindof an expensive solution.

Scyber

 

[PsychoAndy]

Ewww... 2x10? wtf...that's pretty low. Scandal, what do you mean it pukes? it doesnt work, it goes slow, what?

 

[ScAndal]

Psycho,
It times out when searching for music. So you can not use this unless your song count is like < 5000 or so. (I don't remember the exact amount).

They need to extend the timeout period so that it can finish searching large collections.

ScAndal

 

[Gultig]

I thought I heard that this thing was running linux with a big open source following?

Anyone?

 

[Mr. Pink]

Nevermind... Argh, I want one of these now.

 

[aphex]

Almost bought this when it was on clearance at BB a few months back.... Must resist urge...... No money left..... NOOOOOOOO

 

[olouie]

Anyone have these? Please post a review. THanks

 

[OctaneZ]

These have been out for a bit now and have been featured by most major publicaitons and boards.
Slashdot
CNET
TechTV
ZDNet

Many more (as usual) can be found by running a simple Google Search.

There also hacks out there to make it work with non-MS operating systems... well anything that can run perl and apache.

Hope This Helps
FYI it was selling for ~300 for most of last year.

-OctaneZ

 

[JahWren]

gutig you are confusing the "rio reciever" which is like a component for your stereo system with the "riocar" aka "empeg" which is for your car and happens to also be discountinued and on sale right now, directly from sonic blue's own website.

 

[jamesd1343]

a while back i compared these to the turtle Beach audiotron and went with that instead. They are very impressive units and BB had them on clearance for a while @ $149 (it was posted here). There are some forums out there to check out. Try HERE and HERE

 

[Gultig]

Gotcha.

Thx JahWren.

 

[Nightwatch]

ScAndla:

I too have a 10,000 plus MP3 collection but I am still interested in this. Is there any way you can limit your Rio Receiver software to only search 4000 songs instead of the whole collection? Is it like the other MP3 software programs where you tell the software where the MP3s are?

 

[DogDevil]

I basically made my own mp3 reciever with an old 266 compaq running win2k. That and an $11 logitech remote off fleabay, though crude, serve the same purpose. I'm really tempted to buy this at $100, simple, takes up a lot less space than the desktop, monitor, and keyboard, and best of all, is silent.... If only I wasn't moving out to be a freshman at UNC this fall... debate debate debate...

 

[emaij]

I gave up on Rio products when I bought a Rio 500 for $200 and it came with bubble gum machine quality headphones. The Rio 300 that I had purchased before it had come with awesome headphones.

Bad decision making there. I'll wait for the Sony.

 

[CtlAltl33t]

nevermind

 

[ieee]

can i take out the phoneline pci card and put in a pci wirless card?

 

[toshiba3020]

Its probably not a pci card. You could get a wireless bridge though.

I would buy this but I just made my own with a laptop i ripped the screen off(was cracked) of and put on a 4x20 lcd.

 

[ktg]

Shipping was (wince) $11.95 for me.

Going thru Ebates will save you another 2 bucks on this...

And whatever you do, don't check "Yes" for the "Give me the Free Phonecard" offer at the end of checkout. They'll charge your credit card something like $50 a month automatically after the first 30 days.

 

[may]

ieee, this convertor will work. although don't know how much it will cost.

http://www.wavelan.com/template.html?section=m56&envelope=93&page=125

 

[polotek147]

Wow, this is a really cool looking thing.

 

[DonBlack]

Anyone know if I can pickup any more of the $150 Audiotrons? That would be killer. I just finished wiring up my living room with CAT5 for my Rio and an Axis webcam.

 

[imonarock]