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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | SoundBridge Radio R1000 is a complete Wi-Fi Music System that brings the world of Internet radio to every room of the house in rich, clear, stereo sound. Combining all of SoundBridge's advanced digital music streaming functionality with incredible-sounding stereo speakers, subwoofer, AM/FM radio and alarm clock, SoundBridge Radio takes today's tabletop radio to the next level in audio power and ease of use. Access all your music using simple and familiar radio controls. A few buttons for presets, scan, and source select make digital music easily accessible. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Width: | 11.0 inches | | Product Height: | 6.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.0 pounds | | Package Length: | 12.8 inches | | Package Width: | 11.0 inches | | Package Height: | 9.2 inches | | Package Weight: | 7.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 52 reviews |
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| | Features | WiFi music system with advanced digital music streaming functionality, pair of stereo speakers, and subwooferNative support for Apple iTunes and Rendezvous, Windows Media Player, Windows Media Player 10, and RhapsodyAccesses free Internet radio stations via broadband connection; bright 280 x 32 vacuum fluorescent displayPatented Linear Magnetic Drive stereo speakers and subwoofer with acoustic enclosures and built-in digital ampsUltra-fast 400 MHz Blackfin DSP; measures 11 x 6 x 6.5 inches (W x H x D); 1-year warranty
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 No support Nov 23, 2008
The Roku Soundbridge is a great concept sold by a company with absolutely no support. I found that communication between Roku and my stereo system was difficult. Storing new stations on my Roku was impossible. My unit even arrived with instructions in French. There's a mint to be made by someone who can make a product like this work simply and provide customer support.
 Excellent concept, let down by poor quality Nov 02, 2008
We live in China and bought the R1000 Radio from Amazon in November 2007. Overall, it's still among the best, if not THE best, of all the popular internet radios. For reasons I'll get to in a moment, we've tried several competitors, including Sangean, Aluratek and Freecom. The Roku has very intuitive controls, excellent sound and a great physical design. The Aluratek gets good reviews here, but it's clunky product with flawed functionality, a primitive interface and amateurish product design. The Sangean is acceptable, but has a painfully slow interface. The Freecom is an excellent product, but doesn't have the sound quality or more sophisticated interface that the R1000 offers.
The reason we know so much about the competitors is that we've bought them all while waiting for the R1000 to be repaired due the faulty power supply. Some have complained about Roku being slow, but I found that once I had a contact name from the Roku Forum, things went pretty smoothly, although it does take persistent followup.
We're now on our third R1000, which appears to be an all-new one (the second was refurbed and had software issues in addition to a faulty power supply). As expat news junkies, we love the ability to stay easily in touch with stateside news. If Roku can get the quality issues under control (especially the power supply, which seems to be the top flaw), then the R1000 would easily be among the top choices in what is a growing field of options.
Use caution if this is your alarm clock Oct 04, 2008
I have used two of these radios for about a year and have had no hardware problems. Like everyone else I wish the menus were a little easier to use. My primary gripe is the clock. The clock set's itself from some time source on the internet but every few months the time automatically resets to something a few hours off the correct time. It's as if the time zone was changed remotely. This change can occur any time thus causing the alarm to come on in the middle of the night or hours after your intended wake up time. The time is easily fixed by unplugging and replugging in the radio to do a reset.
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Good net radio but has reliability issues Aug 21, 2008
The Soundbridge has good sound and worked well with my upnp setup for about 10 months. Then it stopped coming on. Since it was still under warranty I was able to get a new unit. The new unit also ran about 10 months before it too failed in the same way. I will not be getting another one of these.
 The future Aug 17, 2008
This radio is a glimpse into our future. It allows me to tune in to any of tens of thousands of radio stations from around the world. If we want Hawaiian music, or New Orleans Jazz or Africian rhythms, we can go right to the source of the music. The quality is as good as a Bose Wave radio. The setup is a little complicated, but if you're patient and follow the instructions in the book and on the Roku website, you can easily program your radio from any computer on the network, or right from the radio itself. It has 18 pre-sets. You don't need to have any computer on for this radio to work; it picks up your wireless network and works with it. It will also pick up you music libraries from i-Tunes and play them. It has built in AM/FM and comes with antennas to maximize reception. There's a remote control, and the one weird thing is that you can only turn off the Soundbridge with the remote. The only option to turn off from the radio itself is a 10-minute sleep button. You can also turn on the radio remotely from any desktop on the network, and even outside the network through Roku's website. It's a wonderful product.
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