November 22, 2007

Revo Blik WiFi Internet Radio Review

Amidst all the craziness that has surrounded Black Friday around here we almost missed a very cool review of a great Internet radio streamer. The Blik Wifi from Revo is the type of product that we love around here. They picked one thing and tried to do it the best they could. That isn't to say the multi-function devices aren't good, it's just more often then not they try to do too much and muddy the whole product up.

The Blik is a very simple, stylish Internet radio that also allows you to wirelessly stream audio from a computer on your network. Like the rest of the Internet radios out there this one has a nice display on the front that will show you which station you are on. You can connect to thousands of different stations from all over the world. They have a central server that caches all the radio stations they offer and can update your player so you always have the most up to date listing of stations on your device.

This device also ships with a remote control so you can enjoy just vegging out on your couch while you surf the stations of the world. When you aren't using it as radio streamer it can function as a standard alarm clock. You also have the option to plug an iPod into the device via a line in jack and listen to your iPod over the units speakers. OK, so they didn't really pick one thing, but rather a bunch, but we like that it is all audio streaming. No wasted tech on having to decode video or render images. Thats all we were driving at, if you think about it.( Thanks Brian Regan )

The only downsides to the product that we can see is that it only supports MP3 and WMA for its streaming. That seems to be a very limited selection of audio formats these days. It isn't a deal breaker, but we know lots of people that keep their music in a bunch of different formats so this would really piss them off. :) All in all it looks to be a pretty solid product, and for $205 not to expensive that you couldn't put this under the tree this year for someone that has been very good.

via Engadget and advancedmp3players