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Digital radio just can't compete. Not only are the players generally large and battery hungry, everybody will be expected to buy a new receiver. It's a terrible
by MintelIE 6y ago
Digital radio just can't compete. Not only are the players generally large and battery hungry, everybody will be expected to buy a new receiver. It's a terrible shame and they might as well just switch to the Internet.
- dungdang 6y agoradio is mostly used by people in cars. all cars, at least stateside, have had digital radio for eons. i don't even think there's a used car you can buy that still runs, that doesn't do digital. for a car, a digital radio is not battery hungry -it's power requirement doesn't even count. people don't buy standalone radio receivers, and haven't in decades.
- reaperducer 6y agoall cars, at least stateside, have had digital radio for eons My car is a 2015. My wife's car is 2016. Neither have digital radio, much to my disappointment. people don't buy standalone radio receivers, and haven't in decades Except that they do, which is why they're still available in stores. I bought one at Target just last fall for a relative who was in the hospital for an extended stay.
- dazc 6y ago'Neither have digital radio, much to my disappointment.' Count yourself fortunate.
- kawsper 6y agoYou can buy a cheap bluetooth dongle that transmits on the FM-band that your car can pick up, you can then pair the bluetooth dongle with your phone and have your phone play through your car speakers. That's a nice inexpensive upgrade, and can be an alternative to having a digital radio installed.
- reaperducer 6y agoYou can buy a cheap bluetooth dongle that transmits on the FM-band No need to. The car has Bluetooth. It also has a USB port, an aux port, and an SD Card slot for playing music. It just doesn't have digital radio.
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- cpach 6y agoHere in Sweden I don’t even know if digital radio is available. Never seen it in any car.
- lb1lf 6y ago-Driving through Sweden from the Svinesund border crossing to the Øresund bridge last year, we definitely had DAB coverage for parts of the trip, but not all - definitely around Gothenburg and Malmö, I believe reception lasted quite a way out into the suburbs along the E6 highway.
- cpach 6y agoWow, I had no idea :)
- dungdang 6y agoand you would not. it's just radio, and doesn't look any different. you likely listened to digital radio a lot, without knowing it.
- cpach 6y agoHow do you mean? If I tune in to the FM band then it’s analog, no?
- dungdang 6y agono. you tune it to your regular fm band on your radio. if you have a digital receiver, which is almost any car in the last decade+, it'll do digital. you won't even know it. in fact, most of these people here defending analog have been using digital for years. this conversation however is not about fm. the switch to digital there was a long time ago. it's about am, whose ship is sailing now.
- kefyras 6y agoYou are talking about HD Radio, which is quite different from DAB/DAB+ used in Europe.
- drran 6y agoI use headphones with built-in FM radio receiver a lot, when cycling. They are popular, I see them often. I found cheap brand, which fits my ears, and use it almost every day when cycling to/from work or when exercising.
- dungdang 6y agothis is about am radio going away, not fm.
- detaro 6y agoThen why does the article repeatedly say "AM and FM"? > Analogue radio station licences will be extended for another 10 years, the UK government has said – entirely reversing plans to shut off FM and AM radio stations in favour of DAB digital radio.
- chrisseaton 6y ago> people don't buy standalone radio receivers, and haven't in decades. Seem to be lots of them in stores, everything from the local supermarket to higher-end department stores, to me. I see them in most people’s kitchens as well.
- dungdang 6y agoyou are a statistical anomaly then. people stream radio online in their kitchens these days, and i have not seen one myself. in fact anyone younger than my 40 years of age doesn't know what am radio is.
- detaro 6y agoBullshit. Signed, someone in their 20s.
- dungdang 6y agogood for you. so you know a lot of people who listen to am radio then?
- detaro 6y agoNo, but that wasn't the question. And I know plenty of people that regularly listen to analog radio.
- dungdang 6y agoyou made up your strawman question. this whole discussion is about am radio specifically.
- detaro 6y agoFirst paragraph of the article: > Analogue radio station licences will be extended for another 10 years, the UK government has said – entirely reversing plans to shut off FM and AM radio stations in favour of DAB digital radio. First comment in this subthread: "digital radio just can't compete". No distinction AM vs FM Your response to that claims that "all modern cars have digital" and that "people don't buy standalone radio receivers, and haven't in decades." Doesn't mention AM vs FM. /u/chrisseaton comments about dedicated radios clearly being widely sold. No mention of AM vs FM. You claim that's an anomaly. You then also introduce AM for the first time in your claim about people <40 not knowing about it. I comment that's wrong. And it is: AM very much was a relevant thing for a large part of the lives of many people under 40. It happens to have been shut off a few years ago where I live, with FM going strong. So where is the strawman? In that I dared to mentioned analog radio in general, which was part of most of the discussion in this subthread, in my last response? What "whole discussion" is about AM specifically?