RCA Infinite Radio RIR200 Internet Radio with Wifi Connectivity and Slacker Personal Radio

by RCA

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 3.7 x 6.1 inches ; 2.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0016OK5O0
• Item model number: RIR200
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,909 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Listen to thousands of global music and talk stations with the RIR200 Infinite Radio by RCA. You can listen to web-only streams, as well as AM/FM transmissions broadcasted over the internet from all over the world. Radio features built-in WiFi connectivity that easily connects to a wireless home router or other existing WiFi networks. Radio will search for existing ¿open¿ networks or connect to secure networks making set-up easy and hassle-free. If you are using the radio where WiFi is unavailable, you can plug an Ethernet cable from your modem or router to begin listening. You can choose from several audio sources including internet radio stations, local AM/FM stations, radio¿s internal memory, USB input, or Slacker personal radio. Slacker personal radio is an internet radio service where you can create personal custom stations. Using Slacker you can tag the songs you love or ban the songs you don¿t. Slacker will then customize the music you listen to with every input you make so that the music played is narrowed to your preferred tastes and genres. Slacker offers over 100 genre stations, 10,000 artist stations and millions of tracks. The Infinite radio has 6 preset stations per audio source so that you can conveniently and quickly find the stations you enjoy the most with the push of a button. Enjoy on-demand weather through Weatherbug, giving you one-day, three-day forecasts and emergency alerts. The RIR200 has 512MB of built-in memory so that you can record approximately 10-hours of your favorite music from the internet radio or FM radio source. Use the personal online portal to customize your internet radio. Selections are made on the portal webpage and ¿auto-synced¿ to the radio. You can store your favorite presets and genres or add our own stations and URL¿s.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars RCA Infinite Radio RIR200-Reasonable WiFi, October 8, 2008

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Timothy Tellier - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RCA Infinite Radio RIR200 Internet Radio with Wifi Connectivity and Slacker Personal Radio (Electronics)

I've been waiting for this gem for months and it's been worth the wait. Compare this wifi radio to ones costing $300+. One of the nice features is its ability to connect with Slacker radio which, if you have a premium account lets you listen to customized stations that you set up. Another nice feature is the auto-setting clock and the weather report at the touch of a button. If you have a USB flash drive or other USB device (FAT 12/16/32) you can playback MP3,WMA and Real audio files as well. I hooked up my Polk stereo via the headphone jack and switched on Slacker...it really sounds good over my home WiFi connection. This radio also has standard AM\FM. This is really quite a remarkable unit for the price.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works very well, slight WEP problem, November 3, 2008

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Wayne F. Brells (Schenectady, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RCA Infinite Radio RIR200 Internet Radio with Wifi Connectivity and Slacker Personal Radio (Electronics)

I've had this radio for about a week and am very happy with it. In particular, I enjoy the Slacker service (after discovering that one must set up "Custom" stations if they are to be accessed via the radio). Playing music from a USB "stick" also works well as does the Internet Radio option. It is nice to have 6 presets available because accessing additional "favorite" stations takes a number of button pushes!

On the negative side, the speakers are clear but seem to have very little bass. Attaching a small pair of Labtec speakers improved the sound quality significantly.

The specifications for this radio do not claim that it can access music stored on a local network and, indeed, it does not seem able to do so.

I'm currently using the radio via an ethernet cable which works very well. I am NOT able to use it via WiFi because my network uses WEP security with Key #2 rather than the default Key #1. (NOTE: WEP security allows 4 encryption keys to be specified even though only one key is used at a given time.) I sent a "help" request via the RCA radio site but have not received a reply. (I suspect this radio cannot access a WEP protected network that use anything other than WEP Key #1.)

All-in-all I'm very happy with this radio and would recommend it to anyone looking for a flexible, inexpensive Internet radio.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fine radio, October 24, 2008

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Fredm (Rochester, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: RCA Infinite Radio RIR200 Internet Radio with Wifi Connectivity and Slacker Personal Radio (Electronics)

I've been using this for about 3 weeks. Except for needing an occasional reboot it works fine. I cannot vouch for the FM/AM performance since I listen to local stations via their internet feed. I had a Chumby but sent it back because it did not function well as a clock radio. This does: its only deficiency is that it has but one alarm. It's speakers produce a good, clear sound and the selection of stations is very large. I would buy it again.