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Does anyone have one of these handy little devices? They sound wicked and seem to be the best way of playing music from your iPod whilst in the car - but they're illegal.

If anyone has one and fancies selling it, I'm your man  8)

My mate got one from Ebay.  How come they're illegal?  Pour quoi?  

I've asked one of my mates who live in the states to send me one over, not too pricey over there.

I have one yes, but it's decided to stop working :cry: .

It's illegal to use, but not to own, so just pull it out if a copper ever stops you.  I've never known anyone to get caught and done for having one though.

It is a brilliant bit of kit, I loved it, that is until it gave up on me, of course.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/31/uk_bans_ipod_radio_addon/

it's daft really. Where'd you get yours Tom?

Isn't it because you need a license to transmit radio signals?

Oh, another thing it drains battery power very quick, I could totally run out of power between Hull and home when using it.  

My mate has one that is connected to a cigarette lighter adapter, that is just in-line, if you see what I mean.  It's quite good, I might get one of them myself.  Also it doesn't need the software for you to be able change frequency, it can do it by the flick of a switch.

This bad boy looks a bit clever and legal too

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/11/griffin_smartdeck/

Yep.  The law in the UK sees it as a pirate station, so illegal.  Only transmits 30 feet FFS though!

So does that mean those universal in car phone speaker systems are illegal as well.  The ones where you fit an attachment to your phone then tune your radio into a frequency like 107.6 FM?

You can get those for a couple of quid, I've got one at the moment, but it's not as good as an iTrip.

Does it not sound as good then?

My mates got one for me out in NY last year.  Think you can get them just as cheap over here now really.  eBay have them, as do:

http://www.everythingipod.co.uk/

This is cool, I know more than most people about something techie.   8)

Well, no not really, but there's not that much in it.  

Other benefits with the iTrip though are that you can go round other peoples houses, and just tune the radio in, due to it being quite small it's no hassle to carry it around for this purpose.

I don't know that much about computers, I can just learn as I go along  8)

seeing as I've got a shitty radio in my car and I use tapes anyway, is it worth picking up one of the cassette adaptors cheaply?

its against the law?????     :D

Might be SY, like I say you can get them all over the place.  You could pick one up in Comet and places like that for less than a fiver I would have thought.

Are we on about the cassette thing you can get hold of at places like Comet?  I'm getting confused.

Sory, I was replying at quite a pace to all the questions, yes I was talking about the cassette thing Jan. :wall:  :wink:

I always thought that those I-trips were to recieve radio through the ipod so that you can listen to music whilst walking around :oops:
Like Sonic, I have a crappy cassette player in my car, so this could be a cheaper option to getting a new CD player.  In response to Kinky Tom saying that it rinses the batteries, an option to solve this might be to get an in-car ipod charger so that you can plug it into the fag lighter socket :beers:

Indeed, PT, but when I gopt my iTrip they were zehr expensive.  Now you can get them for less than a tenner, which is nice.  The charger that is.

I've just bought an Itrip and a powerpod car charger from ebay for £27.89.  Being shipped from the states :beers:

You can have my old one if you like. I've just upgraded my car stereo so I finally have a CD player, and it's going unused.  You want it?

An iPod to cassette adaptor? How much you want for it?

I can bung it in the post for free at work ... I'm not fussed about cash. It only cost me a few quid anyway, and you're clearly very poor. Hehe.

*cough*

that'd be ace if you're happy mate, I'll be sure to buy you a pint if you get yourself along to the Merlin next season!

That's gonna be a big round next season  :soapy tit wank:

Better get a job SY

*cough*

why get a job when i can buy an ipod courtesy of your taxes?

Top job. Bung me your address on the private message thing. Unless you want to post it here and get this bunch of headcases visiting.

yep, a headphone socket to cassette player thing is definitely the best option.

itrip is a hassle to use and drains battery.

mine's stopped working too, tom, don't suppose you have any idea how to fix em? i guess it was an ipod software update that stopped it working? those apple gits.

Dunno OF, the LED still comes on, but there's nothing coming through on any signal. :cry: