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Post by buzzy on Dec 15, 2013 16:08:25 GMT
There was a discussion on local (FM) radio this week that this medium was due to be cancelled much the same way as Analogue Television was a while ago. This however is not the case for something like 10 years. (if at all) Details - tinyurl.com/q76lm2x |
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Post by mikkh on Dec 17, 2013 1:28:07 GMT
Nothing to do with warehouses full of DAB radios then.
When they first came out I promised myself one when the price became sensible. It never did and having a quick look on the Argos site, I see the cheap end of the market (around £30 - £40) look pretty cheap and nasty with what I assume are cheap and nasty speaker(s) too, which sort of defeats the object of owning a so called superior device. While the top end are anything up to £200 and have the added bonus of 'internet radio' to justify the price.
Some marketing genius decided retro looking radios would be cool - it's not, it's tacky especially with a three figure price attached.
Might be some time before I enter the digital radio age I think
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Post by johnnybee on Dec 17, 2013 4:18:50 GMT
DaB has been with us for quite a while, Mikky, so I wouldn't get hot under the collar just yet; when the TV thing happened I just shrugged and used my (many) PC's instead to do the same job - and it works just as well as it used to back in the day.
The same will apply to DaB radio - not that many peeps rely on radioes any more as such; they tend to be used in workplaces and cars and not much else, frankly, so from that POV it's no great loss.
There IS a side swipe from this of course, in the fact that if digital radio does eventually get the chop then we'll have another half a million DJ's/presenters and all the backroom crews on the dole with no reasonable expectation of getting another job.
For myself I remember with some delight having my first crystal set - built by my Dad - that I used to fall asleep listening to with my RAF mark seven earphones still round my lugs - radio was THE technology of the day and was somehow very special.
These days we have every conceivable device in our pockets and scattered round our homes, so we don't give things like that a second thought - everyone's become accustomed to having it there when they want it, but somehow it isn't the same - just more and more "progress" as time goes on.
We'll see.
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