FM tuners - Are they OBSOLETE ?

Greetings,
I have had an FM tuner in my system for the last 43 years.
When I lived in Denver we had some very good radio stations, that gave me the oppotunity to listen to new music. The Boulder station was very good.
I now live in Anchorage Alaska and we have a decent Jazz and Clasical station.
My dogs, cats and plants like listening to Classical music (FM tuner)on my HT system, when I'm away from the house. Actually keeps them mellow.
Most of the time I use the FM tuner to warm up my system before I do serious listening.
The jazz and classical stations do play new artists/recordings, so that is a plus for me. I also listen to it if I'm doing work, sometimes I like to do work in my main dedicated listening room.
For absolute listening enjoyment I always listen to my Lp's (5000+) or cd's.
Respectfully,
Joe Nies

If you think so they are.

With respect to 'should I buy a tuner or shouldn't I?' I have to ask; how much longer will it take for internet audio streams to appear in higher resolutions than from what we are currently being offered. Itunes offers full resolution downloads from their purchasing website but they have the server space to do so. The BBC is so massive that they can only offer about 86kbps for their various stations via audio streaming. Other smaller stations like with college radio lack the funds to operate a larger server space. I do believe however that a time will come where folks who want full resolution streaming audio will be capable of purchasing it in the form of membership. The Metropolitan Opera offers something of this sort via video streaming from their website. Once computer information can be stored on atoms instead of silicon, then tuners will certainly be a passe' novelty.

Has2be - I do not ''critisize peoples intelligence'', just voicing my opinion respectfully - unlike you may I add. No hard feelings, with a bit of experience you might get the hang of it...

"Has2be - I do not ''critisize peoples intelligence'', just voicing my opinion respectfully - unlike you may I add. No hard feelings, with a bit of experience you might get the hang of it..."

Soniqmike, the above is just one more contradiction of yours and you within this post. No hard feelings what so ever. I think you are the one who's large opinion seems bruised. Try resting it by sitting on a nice soft pillow.

Cheers