Portable HD Radio at best Buy

[Dave Doherty]

I ordered one from BB today to pick up at the Worcester store that had them 
"in stock".  When I went to pick it up, they said the computer says they 
have two, but they couldn't find 'em.

Maybe I'll try Seekonk on Weds when i'm in Providence.

-d



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>
To: "Mike Ward" <mward@iname.com>; 
<boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: Portable HD Radio at best Buy


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> Mike Ward wrote:
>> Dan.Strassberg wrote:
>>> It's gotta be the Insignia (isn't that LG?) unit that was pictured in
>>> Tom Taylor's column this morning, because, according to Tom--for the
>>> moment, at least--it is the the _only_ pocket-sized HD radio.
>>
>> I don't know what, if anything else LG/Zenith makes under the Insignia 
>> house brand for Best Buy...aside from the DTVconverter box...
>>
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> Insignia is the house brand BB slaps on devices made by a variety of 
> manufacturers. I'm not sure who's actually making this unit. It's the same 
> one I saw at the NAB show in Las Vegas in April, when it had a "KRI" label 
> on it. No AM, just FM analog/HD. They were claiming four hours of battery 
> life then...now they're claiming "up to" 10.
>
> I'm feeling slightly peeved that Tom and Radio World both got to play with 
> pre-production test units - I asked, too, and nobody ever got back to 
> me...
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