Product Description

Thomson provides a wide range of video technologies, products and services to consumers and professionals in the entertainment and media industries. Offering an array of state-of-the-art digital products and services, Thomson adds value to hundreds of millions of consumers around the world every year.PRODUCT FEATURES:This AM/FM clock radio has a large 1.4" blue LED display for easy readability;Connect your mp3 player to the audio input jack and then sit back and enjoy your music;Simply plug in the clock radio and the current Eastern Standard Time (EST) is automatically displayed. Flip the switch to select your time zone;When the environment is bright, the LED display will activate full brightness. When the environment is dark, the LED display will activate very dim light;When the alarm is activated, any of the top buttons will act as a snooze;Individual wake time indicators allow for two different alarm settings for two different users. Each wake setting is indicated;Turns off the alarm or radio for an extra 9 minutes of sleep or can be programmed for 1-30 minutes; you can snooze up to 2 hours;Plays the radio for up to 2 hours before automatically turning off the radio, allowing the user to gently fall asleep to music;Allows the user to set a quick alarm for a short interval of sleep without disturbing the alarm settings. Set for 10-minute increments up to a total of 2 hours of naptime;Digital active radio station readout displayed for current station. Also makes it easy to locate a specific frequency quickly;This feature gives the user the choice of waking up to the alarm or to a favorite radio station.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2790 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Silver
• Brand: RCA
• Model: RP5430
• Dimensions: 6.18" h x 5.71" w x 9.49" l, 3.00 pounds

Features

• Auto Time Set
• SmartSnooze
• Two different alarm settings for two different users: radio or buzzer
• Programmable Snooze; Programmable Sleep Timer
• Nap Function

Customer Reviews

Highly flawed -- buy at your own risk
This clock looks great, but don't let that deceive you: this is a highly flawed, shoddily-built product which you buy at your own risk.

Within a year of purchase, here are the problems I've experienced:

- Out of the box, the clock produces an intermittent crackling noise even when the radio is off. I note other reviewers have had this problem as well. If your bedroom is quiet, this is easily audible and difficult to ignore.

- The buttons are terribly manufactured and break with minimal use. The "nap" button on my clock broke after about 9 months (stuck in a "down" position), even though I never use this function and certainly don't abuse the button.

- The final straw: after about a year of use, the alarm function is now inoperable (no alarm goes off even after being set).

I can't express my frustration with this product enough -- how difficult is it to build a simple digital alarm clock?! I plan to avoid RCA products in the future, if this little wonder is representative of their design / manufacturing prowess.

Nice features, poor manufacturing
The nap function is nice. The automatic time set is great, too, but...

within two months, the digital readout for the hour partially burned out. You couldn't tell if the clock read 5 of 6 and 8 or 9. Another light burnout made it so you couldn't tell if the alarm was set and on or not. That's pretty shoddy manufacturing, especially considering our previous clock radio (Panasonic) lasted for 15 years before the time set buttons fell off. We are buying a new clock to replace the RCA.

So Bright it Keeps You Awa e & Then the Buttons Will Break
This alarm clock had everything we needed: Dual alarms, big numbers, auto clock set, and digital am/fm tuner.

But it also has two major flaws:
1. The light the numbers cast is very bright, even on "low" setting. The high setting is so bright it lit up our room enough to read by. The low setting made us feel like someone was shining a light in our window. We thought we would get use to it but never did. My wife has gone to putting a card over it to block the light.

2. The buttons that turn the alarms on or off are both not working now. Fortunately, the alarms are both set to "on" so that is good, but we can not turn them off, so we have to change the time for weekends when we want to sleep in, then remember to change them back on Monday again.