This seems like a good question. For my part, this question came up in my home recently. My choices are:
XM Radio subscription and hardware purchase.
Upgrade of my Cable TV subscription to include some radio channels.
Internet-Based Radio and downloads.
Monthly subscription fees for each of these would be very roughly the same ($10) except the cable TV package upgrade unfortunately costs about $22 per month I think.
If I could figure out a way to use my existing cable-internet connection and beam it to my hi-fi with decent fidelity, I might consider doing this. Yes, it's a very geeky wierd project, but whatever. I think it would be a fun project, and might allow me to integrate my internet radio with some music download purchases. I do have a wireless router I'm not using, so I'm wondering if that could be a way to set up some sort of "receiver" near my hi-fi that could receive the signal, instead of stringing a wire across the house.
Or maybe there's such a thing as a purpose built internet radio "receiver" (i.e., that would allow me to not have to keep my computer tuned in all the time?)
XM Radio subscription and hardware purchase.
Upgrade of my Cable TV subscription to include some radio channels.
Internet-Based Radio and downloads.
Monthly subscription fees for each of these would be very roughly the same ($10) except the cable TV package upgrade unfortunately costs about $22 per month I think.
If I could figure out a way to use my existing cable-internet connection and beam it to my hi-fi with decent fidelity, I might consider doing this. Yes, it's a very geeky wierd project, but whatever. I think it would be a fun project, and might allow me to integrate my internet radio with some music download purchases. I do have a wireless router I'm not using, so I'm wondering if that could be a way to set up some sort of "receiver" near my hi-fi that could receive the signal, instead of stringing a wire across the house.
Or maybe there's such a thing as a purpose built internet radio "receiver" (i.e., that would allow me to not have to keep my computer tuned in all the time?)