It's becoming a reality. BMW is the first car company to offer Web browsing as a factory-installed option.
And this is using currently available wireless data technology, it's not a WiMax pipe dream or using spotty WiFi. Currently, it's only available in Europe, but it's only a matter of time before it's available here.
Mark Ramsey at Hear 2.0 carries the thought even farther. Rather than simply streaming in the generic "internet radio" from various sources, this type of connectivity allows the automakers themselves to brand their music offerings. So rather than 13,000 internet radio channels, you'd have "Jazz on BMW" or "BMW Rocks" etc. Distribution is no longer an obstacle.
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Content is King! Sirius still wins, with Howard Stern, NASCAR, and NFL.
Internet surfing by car dirivers = more car accidents.
2 things,
1 how much I have a pda and its hell, to find a place to connect for free!
2 "Content is King! Sirius still wins, with Howard Stern, NASCAR, and NFL.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward"
Nfl is the only thing that interests me. I try to stay away from senior citizens, and inbreeds
Great, more distractions. Please NO! Not until cars drive themselves.
This does mean a true connection to internet radio is becoming available. EVERY media source should be frightened of this. This should sinch the merger as you must be VERY robust to compete with the internet directly when it is available so easily as radio content.
The system should be unwatchable when you are in Drive except for simple radio buttons for safety. Either way this ties all media challengers together and the competition is now fair for anybody in the world that can build a radio website.
This will create another 20 competitors easily.
This should sinch the merger
Oh that's just great, the BMW that hits me will be net surfing! What idiot thought of this idea?
If they can surf the web they can also log onto SIRIUS Satellite Radio!
Many will be buying and selling stocks from your car!
"Content is King! Sirius still wins, with Howard Stern, NASCAR, and NFL"
With the exception of Howard Stern, the content you claim as "king" is all available via the internet. I hope the FCC and DOJ are reading...
When this takes-off in the US, it is over for satrad, and HD Radio will have no chance in-dash.
And all this time I thought not paying attention to the road was illegal...
The difference between porcupines and BMW's? The porcupines have the pricks on the outside.
What I'm thinking about is will Sirius count wrecked BMWs sitting in salvage lots as subscribers? In that case, they'll be able to count Billy Joel's collection of chug-and-crashes.
Ten bucks says they'll even try to count every corpse and ICU patient as an in-range listener. In Mel's eyes, if you have an OEM unit crack your skull open, you're listening.
Time to buy a MAJIC JACK for your new Beamer and avoid all those costly cell phone charges.
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What I'm thinking about is will Sirius count wrecked BMWs sitting in salvage lots as subscribers? In that case, they'll be able to count Billy Joel's collection of chug-and-crashes.
Ten bucks says they'll even try to count every corpse and ICU patient as an in-range listener. In Mel's eyes, if you have an OEM unit crack your skull open, you're listening."
Post of the day.
"Content is King! Sirius still wins, with Howard Stern, NASCAR, and NFL"
With the exception of Howard Stern, the content you claim as "king" is all available via the internet. I hope the FCC and DOJ are reading...
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AND NOT ON SIRIUS ONLINE, JUST SAT. MODE
Meanwhile, braindead BigRadio - they brought us consolidation, voice-tracked juke boxes, and plummetting stock prices - prattles on and on about its Great Blight Hope, HD Radio.
HD is long dead. As with any carcass too long in the sun, HD stinks. Will someone please remove it from our airwaves so that live local radio might again be heard?
Yes, BigRadio, the cynical rotten 90's really are over, as is your scheme to jam competitors off the air and listeners into submission by means of HD interference.
Listeners want content. And they really, really, detest cynical jamming ploys.
Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
11 March, 2008
Meanwhile, braindead BigRadio - they brought us consolidation, voice-tracked juke boxes, and plummetting stock prices - prattles on and on about its Great Blight Hope, HD Radio.
HD is long dead. As with any carcass too long in the sun, HD stinks. Will someone please remove it from our airwaves so that live local radio might again be heard?
Yes, BigRadio, the cynical rotten 90's really are over, as is your scheme to jam competitors off the air and listeners into submission by means of HD interference.
Listeners want content. And they really, really, detest cynical jamming ploys.
Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
11 March, 2008
Meanwhile, braindead BigRadio - they brought us consolidation, voice-tracked juke boxes, and plummetting stock prices - prattles on and on about its Great Blight Hope, HD Radio.
HD is long dead. As with any carcass too long in the sun, HD stinks. Will someone please remove it from our airwaves so that live local radio might again be heard?
Yes, BigRadio, the cynical rotten 90's really are over, as is your scheme to jam competitors off the air and listeners into submission by means of HD interference.
Listeners want content. And they really, really, detest cynical jamming ploys.
Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
11 March, 2008
Meanwhile, braindead BigRadio - they brought us consolidation, voice-tracked juke boxes, and plummetting stock prices - prattles on and on about its Great Blight Hope, HD Radio.
HD is long dead. As with any carcass too long in the sun, HD stinks. Will someone please remove it from our airwaves so that live local radio might again be heard?
Yes, BigRadio, the cynical rotten 90's really are over, as is your scheme to jam competitors off the air and listeners into submission by means of HD interference.
Listeners want content. And they really, really, detest cynical jamming ploys.
Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
11 March, 2008
Meanwhile, braindead BigRadio - they brought us consolidation, voice-tracked juke boxes, and plummetting stock prices - prattles on and on about its Great Blight Hope, HD Radio.
HD is long dead. As with any carcass too long in the sun, HD stinks. Will someone please remove it from our airwaves so that live local radio might again be heard?
Yes, BigRadio, the cynical rotten 90's really are over, as is your scheme to jam competitors off the air and listeners into submission by means of HD interference.
Listeners want content. And they really, really, detest cynical jamming ploys.
Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
11 March, 2008
Meanwhile, braindead BigRadio - they brought us consolidation, voice-tracked juke boxes, and plummetting stock prices - prattles on and on about its Great Blight Hope, HD Radio.
HD is long dead. As with any carcass too long in the sun, HD stinks. Will someone please remove it from our airwaves so that live local radio might again be heard?
Yes, BigRadio, the cynical rotten 90's really are over, as is your scheme to jam competitors off the air and listeners into submission by means of HD interference.
Listeners want content. And they really, really, detest cynical jamming ploys.
Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
11 March, 2008
Meanwhile, braindead BigRadio - they brought us consolidation, voice-tracked juke boxes, and plummetting stock prices - prattles on and on about its Great Blight Hope, HD Radio.
HD is long dead. As with any carcass too long in the sun, HD stinks. Will someone please remove it from our airwaves so that live local radio might again be heard?
Yes, BigRadio, the cynical rotten 90's really are over, as is your scheme to jam competitors off the air and listeners into submission by means of HD interference.
Listeners want content. And they really, really, detest cynical jamming ploys.
Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
11 March, 2008
Regarding comments about more car accidents caused by BMW drivers surfing the net while driving, I would assume (and hope) that with voice activation technology, drivers will simply pre-program their favourite (that's how we spell "favorite" in Canada) internet radio stations just as we currently program button selectors. They will then verbally switch stations with no need to take their eyes off the road.
Michael Dunn
Program Director
www.planetnerve8.com
Vancouver, BC
I suggest looking at what the NAB is currently devoting all their resources (including paid for DC connections) to kick and scream about. It is not the internet that may be coming to your Beemer or other cars. In case you haven't been following the news (because it's not currently available in your car), the NAB (and their paid for DC connections) are the only one's fighting against the SIRI/XM merger. I think that alone says enough about what technology the "broadcasters" are most concerned about!!!
Personally, I can wait until I get home to surf the web. It is not something that really interests me while driving a vehicle...I will continue listening to my satrad regardless.
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The media and people seem to get so excited about this technology. Why? Take your laptop and place it in the seat next to you, and you have this setup already. The problem with all of it is NO CONNECTIVITY. Drive down the street with your laptop and try to stream anything...I dare you...