Is this the end of DAB

STEED · 02-11-08, 05:26 PM

Could be but not over night.

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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

Jimbuna · 02-11-08, 05:35 PM

Nice picture of you, the wife and bairn

Konovalov · 02-11-08, 05:44 PM

Has anyone tried or used DAB radio?

STEED · 02-11-08, 05:47 PM

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

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

Konovalov · 02-11-08, 05:49 PM

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 · 02-11-08, 05:50 PM

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 · 02-11-08, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by 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:

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

XabbaRus · 02-11-08, 06:48 PM

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 · 02-11-08, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Nice picture of you, the wife and bairn

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

Jimbuna · 02-12-08, 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by 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:

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

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

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

Captain Nemo · 02-12-08, 06:52 AM

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 · 02-12-08, 06:57 AM

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 · 02-12-08, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by 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
Nemo

And I get stuck with a sh*t digital TV picture.

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 · 02-12-08, 12:41 PM

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 · 02-12-08, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

02-11-08, 05:35 PM	#2
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02-11-08, 05:44 PM	#3
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02-11-08, 05:47 PM	#4
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	We got one here and most of the stations are pop music. Sometimes the radio can not lock on to a station. The only good thing that I know of is the upper end one's (£££) you can record programs. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

02-11-08, 05:49 PM	#5
Konovalov Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: High Wycombe, Bucks, UK Posts: 2,811 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	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: __________________ "In a Christian context, sexuality is traditionally seen as a consequence of the Fall, but for Muslims, it is an anticipation of paradise. So I can say, I think, that I was validly converted to Islam by a teenage French Jewish nudist." Sheikh Abdul-Hakim Murad (Timothy Winter)

02-11-08, 06:48 PM	#8
XabbaRus Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,330 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	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. __________________

02-11-08, 05:50 PM	#6
Prof Medic Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Cambridge, UK Posts: 167 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	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.

02-12-08, 06:52 AM	#11
Captain Nemo Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: London, England Posts: 1,144 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	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 __________________ "I'm afraid there is no disguising the fact that King's obsession with the Pacific and the Battle of Washington cost us dear in the Battle of the Atlantic". Sir John Slessor GCB, DSO, MC, DL AOC-in-C Coastal Command RAF ___________________________________________

02-12-08, 06:57 AM	#12
Letum Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: York - UK Posts: 6,079 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	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. __________________

02-12-08, 12:41 PM	#14
XabbaRus Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,330 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I get that when a boyracer in a tricked up car goes by. Also rain affects the picture more, sometimes channel 5 blacks out. __________________