BELKIN FM transmitter

Pros: Access to your entire MP3 collection on any FM frequency w/o broadcasts
Cons: Update-- died within a year.

Update 12/11/05- About a year after my last update, in July of 2005, my Belkin TuneCast II died completely. It never got heavy use, so I'm lowering my rating from four stars to two. There's just no excuse for such poor durability. Update ...

Pros: Cheap, well designed, good battery life, sturdy, powerful
Cons: Shame memory cards dont plug into it, but you can't have everything!

Since my job entails two hours of commuter driving per day, I am always looking for ways to make that time more fulfilled. I drive an old pickup truck that it is not worth installing a CD player in, so when I noticed recently that Belkin make this ...

Pros: good sound, good signal strength, delightful convenience
Cons: Because of FCC restrictions, sound quality is not automatic. You have to avoid outside interference.

I just bought the Belkin TuneCast II, partly out of curiosity and partly because my Initial pdvd doesn't have the speaker volume to drown out traffic. TuneCast I is about half the price, but I got lured in by TuneCast II's added functionality. TuneCast ...

Pros: Allows you to listen to your iPod anywhere there's an FM radio, simple interface.
Cons: Battery life verges on poor, sound quality varies from good to appalling depending on location.

Belkin Tunecast II Model: F8V3080-APL Batteries: 2 AAA Runtime: Approximately 8 hours Transmits on FM channels 88.1MHz-107.9MHz ----- Introduction ----- Since the massive infusion of portable MP3 players a few ...

Pros: Small size, a variety of frequencies to choose from, LCD screen, power cord included
Cons: Poor quality sound due to interference problems, range is dramatically reduced. Battery life average.

The Belkin wireless transmitter is a small electronic device that allows you to be able to listen to sound (i.e Music) over an FM signal from a variety of devices. These include MP3 Players, Discmans, Palm Handhelds (or Pocket PC's) or anything that ...

Pros: AC power, east to use, fairly compact
Cons: Weak signal, lag time

So I went into Bestbuy the other day with the intention of getting a sport case for my ipod shuffle and wound up with a sport case and this Belkin FM transmitter and a few other ipod accessories that somehow ended up in my basket. Since getting sirius ...

Pros: does broadcast signals onto a nearby radio
Cons: not very clear, not very strong, not very practical or elegant

This will be a short review, as I'm not a geek about every product I try. My hope is that you'll get the information you need to make an informed decision. Belkin's TuneCast II is a radio transmitter that will allow you to pipe anything - iPod, tape ...

Pros: Auto on/off, four memory chanels and 12V adaptor
Cons: Suffers from inherent design flaws, subject to interference and causes distortion

If you spend a lot of time in the car, like I do, and despise the radio, like I do, then an MP3 player can be a great way to keep your sanity. The question that always arises is how to connect your MP3 player of choice to your car stereo. Few cars come ...

Pros: A neat idea. Small, featherweight and easy to operate.
Cons: 10 feet transmission range too short for any practical use. Static ridden within 3 feet.

The Belkin TuneCast Mobile FM Transmitter is a great idea. The device lets you transmit the output of audio electronic devices (mounted with a headphone jack) on the FM band. The uses for such a gadget are almost endless. The sleek TuneCast measures ...

Pros: No batteries! Decent signal! Can hear the music, no messing with position!
Cons: Annoying background static/white noise! Signal should be stronger and louder!

Someone I know has the first TuneCast transmitter and when I borrowed it to try it out, the signal was not good. I had to be positioned in a certain way in order to reduce the audible static, and ran off batteries. I wanted to connect it to my CD player, ...

Pros: Works with standard headphone jack, works in cars without tape drives, charges itself
Cons: FM transmitters offer poor sound quality, does not charge iPod

The Belkin TuneCast II lets you listen to your iPod, PDA, walkman, laptop, or any other portable audio device with a standard headphone jack. It broadcasts FM radio, on a very small scale, so that your car or other FM radio can pick up and broadcast ...

Pros: you can throw this into an ocean if you live near one
Cons: i live in Arizona so i cant =(

Shopping around, I looked at various ways to connect your MP3 player to speakers. I have a nice set of speakers, unfortunately with no hesdphone jack so I can connect it. I found various ways...you could connect it to speakers, but I already had speakers ...

Pros: Compact design, easy storage, great idea for a product
Cons: Not very reliable, picky and choosy, won't work

My husband and I first saw this product at a Wal-Mart where we decided to purchase it for around $25.00 What a wonderful idea we both thought. You simply take a MP3 player that you already own and plug it into the TuneCast, which in return broadcasts ...

Pros: Auto on/off, cable stows nicely, full range of frequencies to choose from.
Cons: All FM transmitters are prone to reception trouble. Your mileage my vary.

By The Numbers Ease of use: 5/5 This sort of device is by nature not for those unwilling to tweak and tinker. But the controls are simple and perfectly intuitive. Features: 5/5 The ability to pick any frequency in 0.1 MHz increments ...

Pros: Packaging allows you to remove and test the product then return easily.
Cons: Quality of broadcast sound is like poor AM radio.

30 seconds is all you will need to figure out this is not worth the money paid, and a receipt will be necessary to take it back the next day. I read all the reviews and decided to keep an open mind. I figured, how bad could it be? Products are made to ...