Box Clever!!!! (The Box)

Member Name: Stuart_frisby

Product:	The Box
Date:	02/03/01 (24 review reads)
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Advantages: You get to choose the music played! Sometimes!

Disadvantages: Cost implication

The Box - Music television you control!

Now don’t get me wrong one thing you must understand is that I love the Box! I have watched the box non-stop for hours on end because I love music. I have my stereo linked up through my TV and I normally just leave the box running. This can get quite annoying at times because there are a lot of gaps in between songs which really naffs me off, but still I listen!

Now because I have no life and I listen to the box non-stop I have noticed something has been happening regularly especially at night. The box tend to play the same set of songs in a row so for example at the moment it would go

1.) Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
2.) Outkast – Miss Jackson
3.) Shaggy – It wasn’t me
4.) Etc

Now it will play a load of these types of songs, which I absolutely love, but it will then play them again ¾ of an hour later in exactly the same order.

Another problem that I have with the box is the way in which you can phone in and ask for a song to be played. Now I have tried this a few times and it has never been on, but one night I was around my girlfriends house and my girlfriends sister’s boyfriend – jono, and we wanted to hear Offspring – Pretty fly for a white guy! Now we phoned up at about 11:30pm. We waited and we waited and we waited and then finally at 04:00am the song came on!! I don’t know about you but if you have to wait 4 hours for a song is there any point? The strangest thing about this was that there was hardly anyone phoning in to get a song played so what took so long?

Ps: This service also costs quite a lot of money – in fact 60pence a minute, this may not sound expensive but conveniently the automated voice that talks you through the song selection process seems to have a very slow talking manner!!

Stuart

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