Is this the end of DAB

[STEED]

Could be but not over night. ;)

DAB Digital radio is being portrayed in some quarters as the 21st century's version of Betamax, the video format that lost out to VHS in the 1970s.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7238768.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7238768.stm)

[Jimbuna]

Nice picture of you, the wife and bairn http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/3060/gigglebigtb9.gif

[Konovalov]

Has anyone tried or used DAB radio?

[STEED]

We got one here and most of the stations are pop music. Sometimes the radio can not lock on to a station. :damn:

The only good thing that I know of is the upper end one's (£££) you can record programs.

[Konovalov]

Classic FM is always plugging them. Actually they seem to be giving them away in all of their radio competitions. Perhaps because they aren't selling. :hmm:

[Prof]

Big deal. Digital is OK for speech programmes (our DAB radio is tuned more-or-less permanently to BBC Radio 4) but for music I find the quality very poor.

[STEED]

Classic FM is always plugging them. Actually they seem to be giving them away in all of their radio competitions. Perhaps because they aren't selling. :hmm:

That or there not really catching on, I wish classic FM play something different for a change. :roll:

[XabbaRus]

The bloody price of them too.
I can't see how a DAB radio can be 3 or 4 times the price of a decent regular radio.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Nice picture of you, the wife and bairn http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/3060/gigglebigtb9.gif

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[Jimbuna]

Classic FM is always plugging them. Actually they seem to be giving them away in all of their radio competitions. Perhaps because they aren't selling. :hmm:

That's the problem, they aren't selling.

They give no better performance than the current (tried and tested) digital radio tuners. :nope:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting

[Captain Nemo]

Given time I suspect the UK Government will give it's full backing to DAB in a similar way that they have to Digital TV. The bottom line is that when the whole of the UK is switched over to Digital TV, the government of the day will make vast sums of money auctioning the radio spectrum that analogue TV occupied. The released spectrum is needed for various mobile and wireless services. It needs to be remembered that Digital transmissions take up much less of the radio spectrum than analogue transmissions even though they contain hundreds of channels and that the radio spectrum is not an infinite resource.

Nemo

[Letum]

I use and love DAB. I don't have a fast Internet connection or telly else I would use
that for the wireless.

Perfect sound quality, great reception, instant channel switching and more stations
make DAB my choice over analogue wireless.

[STEED]

Given time I suspect the UK Government will give it's full backing to DAB in a similar way that they have to Digital TV. The bottom line is that when the whole of the UK is switched over to Digital TV, the government of the day will make vast sums of money
Nemo

And I get stuck with a sh*t digital TV picture. :damn: Next door has gone one one and the picture is always pixelating or freezing up or some other reason, what gets me a angry is the bloody stinking government is forcing this on to us. Thanks a bloody bunch nanny state government.

[XabbaRus]

I get that when a boyracer in a tricked up car goes by. Also rain affects the picture more, sometimes channel 5 blacks out.

[STEED]

I get that when a boyracer in a tricked up car goes by. Also rain affects the picture more, sometimes channel 5 blacks out.

The only good thing I can say I'm in the last area when they switch over. Apart from that I am dreading it. :down: