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Commercial-removing Abbee to receive award at CES
Myine's 28-year-old founder to showcase radio he designed for his baby-boomer parents



LAS VEGAS - Jake Sigal, the innovator behind Myine Electronics, LLC, is heading to Las Vegas Jan. 7-10 for the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show to showcase his company's award-winning Abbee Commercial-Free FM Radio, a product he designed with his own parents in mind.



"This is our second time participating in the Silvers Summit at CES and we couldn't be more excited," said Sigal, Myine's founder and CEO, and the inventor of the USB turntable. "The baby boomer demographic is an often overlooked audience when it comes to consumer electronics and new technologies. My boomer parents are the reason I started this business and I love making cool radios for them."

Myine's Abbee Commercial-Free FM Radio model AB001 was recently selected as an Innovations 2010 Design and Engineering Award honoree in the categories Audio Components and Portable Media Players.



Abbee (patent pending) features Consumer Electronics Association award-winning Popcatcher technology designed to automatically record the music of the user's favorite FM stations. Abbee removes all of the commercials and DJ talk for hours of uninterrupted music, played over Abbee's built-in speakers, or virtually anywhere with the included portable Music Lock, without the annoying interference of ads or DJs.



Sigal said Myine would be showing a product concept version of the AB001 outfitted with an iPod® dock at the CES, allowing users of the Apple® iPhone® or iPod touch® to easily listen to music recorded by Abbee.



Second generation Abbee users can also look forward to compatibility with Android phones - again, allowing the easy and free transfer of recordings from Abbee to their Android phone - later in 2010.



Visit Sigal at CES Booth #2806 to learn more about Myine Electronics and their products.
 
If you think that's bad, here's something that will make your hair stand on end!

Our new FCC Commissioner, has hired (with our tax dollars of course), a broadcasting "hit man" from Duke:

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/articles/2009/12/11/daily.6/

You can read his actual report "Roasting the Pig to Burn Down the House: A Modest Proposal," which outlines the way in which the FCC should regulate the broadcast industry (in particular TV), out of business.

Download the .pdf here: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/uploads/files/benjaminpaper.pdf

Unbelievable! Well folks, the enemy to broadcasting isn't Wall Street, Ibquity (for the HD radio theorists), or big corporations, but the FCC.
 
The aspect of this everyone ignores is that while it weakens broadcasting, it empowers and emboldens the ISPs. If you think corporate radio is bad, try to deal with the folks at Verizon for a while. Or AT&T. If you're concerned about concentration of media, you should take a closer look at how many telecom companies there are, and what they're doing. Comcast buying NBC Universal is just the begining. It's all aimed around converting free content to pay content.
 
HowardMBurgers said:
If you think that's bad, here's something that will make your hair stand on end!

Our new FCC Commissioner, has hired (with our tax dollars of course), a broadcasting "hit man" from Duke:

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/articles/2009/12/11/daily.6/

You can read his actual report "Roasting the Pig to Burn Down the House: A Modest Proposal," which outlines the way in which the FCC should regulate the broadcast industry (in particular TV), out of business.

Download the .pdf here: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/uploads/files/benjaminpaper.pdf

Unbelievable! Well folks, the enemy to broadcasting isn't Wall Street, Ibquity (for the HD radio theorists), or big corporations, but the FCC.
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Benjamin's paper is typical of the crackpot ramblings of academics far removed from reality. Generally we're safe from them as long as they stay confined to the ivy-covered halls of academia, where they are free to collect their six figure salaries while contemplating their navel.

But when academics are unleashed on the real world and, worse, when agencies like the FCC take them seriously, that's when they become dangerous.

c5
 
For some reason, when I saw the headline, I assumed that another HD radio had been released.

Holland Cooke, is your talk radio revolution still coming?
 
Benjamin's paper came up during House hearings today, as reported here:

http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/19324.html

Back to the subject...

I find it interesting that the Consumer Electronics Association is going to give an award to a device that allows users to remove radio commercials and "annoying DJs." I wonder how the device differentiates between the ones who annoy, and the ones who deliver important information.

I also wonder what the RIAA thinks about this device.

TV has struggled with Tivo and other devices that allow viewers to skip through commercials. But this device really redefines the basic purpose of radio.
 
Savage said:
The term for these aloof, arrogant, self-important pedagogues is: "educated far beyond their intelligence."
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Exactly. We now have FCC policy as dictated by Prof. Irwin Corey, "The World's Foremost Authority".

c5
 
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