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nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=2374

gfloyd · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject:

DAB wont be the future anyway.
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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

I can't remember when I last listened to something on AM radio - Radio 1 probably, before the launch of ILR in the 70s. Sound quality is prehistoric and the band will surely not be missed.

FM is a different matter. Like television, digital gives us lots more channels to choose from, but the sound quality is inferior and they're prone to interruption. The sets are ludicrously expensive, both to buy and in energy (battery) terms.

However, like tv, I daresay we shall have little choice but to put up with it and this "consultation" is but one step on the road towards the inevitable demise of analogue radio.
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Barkingbiker · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2313 Location: Lincolnshire

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

My escape from the drivel that is now the usual R2 midweek afternoon fare at work is 6 music. At work there are those lights that switch on/off automatically when I walk into that area and when they switch off, that can sometimes interfere terribly with my radio when in DAB mode. With me just walking down there to turn them on, on the worst days! Confused

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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:34 am Post subject:

AM is STILL my refuge from incompetence at 5pm. 5 live's figures go up at this time.
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Bound across the cinder causeway
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Through the fields of oil