DAB is an abortion.....
The "sales" chat of "digital quality" is BS ,
it COULD have been CD quality.... but instead, the Government smelled a money making opportunity, and allocated insufficient bandwidth per channel to fit the required bit stream in to.... so they could sell licenses for more channels... and make VAT on the sales of replacement units , as well as other associated tax streams....
so, band limited means fewer bits , fewer bits means lower quality.
by any measurable standard, DAB broadcast quality is inferior to decent FM.
then there's the environmental consequences.
it is estimated that there are some 120-150 million analogue radios in the uk that will go to the scrap yard.
and DAB uses significantly more power than analogue radio...
great, we get to buy new , more expensive, inferior receivers, and the government make loads of money... and someone has to find landfill space for the accumulated radio populae of the last 40 or so years....
i've seen elsewhere that some people are waving fingers at the BBC, like it's THEIR FAULT....
it isn't, they're every bit as unhappy as the rest of us.
and then there's the people with cars that have non standard Radio fittings, Like facelift miggy owners, and features we all love and rely on, like the information display links, the steering wheel controls , and such like....
the best we can do, is to buy a separate unit, and feed it in via a cassette or external input interface.... and mount a remote control for it somewhere handy....
and we'll lose all the other useful things, like the rds linked clock for example...
basically it's a bloody liberty, or rather it's an imposition on our liberty!
and SOLELY in the name of making money by the back door for the government.
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