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Digi radio hits 10m sales mark though sales still dropping

http://www.techradar.com/news/audio/hi- ... ark-654871

Unless there's a drastic change in what's being broadcast and how, I'll never own one of these :oops:

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Re: Digi radio hits 10m sales mark though sales still dropping

You might want one when they turn the analogue radio signals off.

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Re: Digi radio hits 10m sales mark though sales still dropping

I have a digibox on the TV, and when I'm at home I'm usually close to the computer. I never really felt the urge to listen to the radio in the bath, so I don't think I'd ever use one at home. Even if I do want sound in the bath, I'll probably use an FM extender which I already have. Far cheaper to drown a 99p FM receiver than an expensive DAB or Internet radio.

In the car is another matter entirely. I seriously need my car radio to work, if only to drown out that frightful whining the poxy engine makes.

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	Linux_User wrote: You might want one when they turn the analogue radio signals off.

No, I mean there's nothing worth listening to, so it doesn't matter how it's broadcast IME

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	pcernie wrote: No, I mean there's nothing worth listening to, so it doesn't matter how it's broadcast IME

Have you tried BBC 6 Music? Radio 7? You might find something on there from the Beeb, amid the noise and chatter of all the crap "music" stations shouting for attention.

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	Linux_User wrote: You might want one when they turn the analogue radio signals off.

That’s not for some time off. At the moment, who’s going to buy a digital radio set when the analogue stuff is not going to be obsolete next year?

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Re: Digi radio hits 10m sales mark though sales still dropping

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	pcernie wrote: No, I mean there's nothing worth listening to, so it doesn't matter how it's broadcast IME

Have you tried BBC 6 Music? Radio 7? You might find something on there from the Beeb, amid the noise and chatter of all the crap "music" stations shouting for attention.

I'll give them a go if I remember

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Tue Dec 01, 2009 10:07 am

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Re: Digi radio hits 10m sales mark though sales still dropping

M'Lordships to save FM radio?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/08/lords_of_dab/


	Quote: It isn't just DAB, but digital radio in general that's proving to be a problem all over Europe. Germany has stopped funding DAB and postponed the move to DAB+, and although official policy of moving radio from analogue transmission remains, it isn't clear how this will be achieved. "DAB – although vital – is in intensive care and living a sad, hospitalised existence," admitted the director of Deutschlandradio (German national public radio) Willi Steul [translation here]. France has postponed its digital radio transmissions for a year, leading to widespread skepticism that it will ever launch. The French have adopted DMB, not DAB+, although the former is around 40 per cent less efficient, according to Steve Green.

Fcuk me, it's in a right state :oops:

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