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Roku SoundBridge R1000 Radio Network Music System | List Price: $299.99
Discount Price: $271.99
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Brand: Roku
Binding: Electronics
Features: - WiFi music system with advanced digital music streaming functionality, pair of stereo speakers, and subwoofer
- Native support for Apple iTunes and Rendezvous, Windows Media Player, Windows Media Player 10, and Rhapsody
- Accesses free Internet radio stations via broadband connection; bright 280 x 32 vacuum fluorescent display
- Patented Linear Magnetic Drive stereo speakers and subwoofer with acoustic enclosures and built-in digital amps
- Ultra-fast 400 MHz Blackfin DSP; measures 11 x 6 x 6.5 inches (W x H x D); 1-year warranty
Amazing product [Posted on 2008-08-09]
I have had Roku Radio for 1.5 years. I love it, amazing sound quality, easy to use, looks cool too. My friends are always impressed when they see it & hear it. I would give it six stars if I could.
Works fine but questionable quality and terrible service [Posted on 2008-08-12]
Roku SoundBridge R1000 Radio Network Music System
The two radios works great off of my Verizon FIOS router. They are sometimes a bit funky and have to be unplugged and plugged back in to reinitialize the stations.
One radio already went dead after 8 months as has been reported by others, apparently because of faulty power supplies.
Customer service is the worst that I have encountered in any company. It has already been a month since the dead radio has been replaced. You can only talk to customer service person sporadically at the company and each step (getting the RMA, having a new radio shipped) takes weeks.
The future [Posted on 2008-08-17]
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.
Good net radio but has reliability issues [Posted on 2008-08-21]
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.
Use caution if this is your alarm clock [Posted on 2008-10-04]
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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