Calvin wrote:

Is it so much to ask for them to stick in a $5 AM/FM circuit? 

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I imagine that the next 'thing' will be voice recognition, trying to copy Alexa/Siri. I just hope that they do a good job of it or at least make a system that doesn't feel crippled if you have an accent. (speaking as a Scottish person!)

The AM/FM circuit won't help you much when they close down broadcast on FM ;-(

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...if you have an accent.....

Or your native language is danish!

MM

Totally agree. As much as I like my Beosound 5 Encore, I really miss FM radio and not to be independant of a working broadband connection. 

In Denmark recently a lot of the good old Beosystems/BeoCenter have become obsolete when it comes to FM radio reception.

One of the biggest cable providers (the others will follow) has stopped the support for FM through the cablenet.

Instead they offered to send a small antenna to the costumers.

With this antenna however, it is only possible to listen to few (most regional) radio channels....

....and often not the ones, that people are used to have access to.

Another advice was to buy a DAB+ radio, which is ok - but not a clever solution for people with good old BeoSounds/BeoCenters, obviously.

If B&O should offer 'anything radio not internet based', it could only be DAB+ - the days of FM are soon gone.

However, imagine a BeoSound 1 or 2 with an attached DAB-antenna - not really my first choice ;-(

MM

Well there's no switch-off date in the UK, the same is true in the majority of countries. It some parts of the UK, the FM signal is still patchy, my parents don't live anywhere near a digital signal, I even have friends within an hour of London who don't get a decent mobile signal [!] and use a landline phone when they're at home. The idea that they are even close to shutting down FM or AM radio in the UK is laughable and I'd imagine the same is true in a lot of markets.

As I said though, it's not as if this is like CDs where it was a large and costly thing to include. A radio circuit would cost next to nothing to include, they cost about £1 each, and they genuinely lose sales because of it. It's similar to how I discovered that the new Tesla can't pick up AM radio which means there's no radio if I'm driving up to see my parents in Scotland where even the FM signal is patchy, or indeed anywhere else with mountains. Petrol car it is then I suppose...

FM stil works fine here i Denmark (for now).

I simply buy older Beomasters with actually excellent FM reception and then add IOS airports or chrome cast audios for all the digital stuff. Best of both worlds.

B&O can not really keep up with sw development of the larger IT players.

Carsten wrote:

Totally agree. As much as I like my Beosound 5 Encore, I really miss FM radio and not to be independant of a working broadband connection. 

What's the difference between AM/FM radio and internet based radio ( TuneIn ) 

IA64 wrote:

What's the difference between AM/FM radio and internet based radio ( TuneIn ) 

In the US, sports.  I have never found any of my local teams "broadcast" on TuneIn.

Also, remote areas often have poor or very expensive Internet while AM/FM is free. 

This said, I've never connected the AM antenna to my BS9000 so no AM for me.