Bye Bye FM radio

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Gio · #1 Post by **Gio** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:41 pm

So Ed Vaizey the arrogant pig in charge of Culture (I'm sure he wouldn't know what culture is if it smacked him in the gob), is getting rid of FM radio, just like those B'stards from the communist party of the UK headed by the former GB wanted.

I suppose it'll come in time for the 20% vat rate and we will have to replace our hi-fi and car radio's so that we can enjoy the garbage spouted by the likes of Chris Evans.

you can read more here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/news ... hover.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/tele ... radio.html

I'd encourage everyone to write to their MP condemning this move.

Bloody people

Oh and how about this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/n ... d-off.html

HowardQ · #2 Post by **HowardQ** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:20 pm

I have posted on this one before Gio.
You won't be having a radio any more in anything other than a brand new car or a very old one with a standard DIN size radio.
All three cars in our household have unique fit radios with displays that incorporate other information as well as the radio.
So you won't be fitting a digital unit in here!
There is no way that car manufactures are going to start making retro fit digital conversions for all their old models, so I reckon is good bye to radios in the car.
Call it progress mate!
Just console yourself by the fact that the money they make selling the wave bands will help them solve "our" debt crisis.

Nooj · #3 Post by **Nooj** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:56 pm

Yippee! Get radios out of cars all together, they're nothing but a distraction for the feeble minded motorist.

MartDude · #4 Post by **MartDude** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 8:07 am

There are DAB receivers which can be connected to analogue radios. Don't know how effective they are.

Reports from friends who've splashed out on DAB car radios generally indicate they're crap - v. patchy reception. Not a problem for me, as I can't afford one.

Question for the geeks - with present technology, e.g. wi-fi - could internet radio be a way around this?

BikerGran · #5 Post by **BikerGran** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 11:19 am

If only someone had created a British radio making industry before this happened, we could at least console ourselves with the idea that it would be helping the economy.
As it is, we'll be helping the Jap economy!

D-Rider · #6 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 11:23 am

BikerGran wrote:If only someone had created a British radio making industry before this happened, we could at least console ourselves with the idea that it would be helping the economy.
As it is, we'll be helping the Jap economy!

..... more likely the Korean, Tawanese, Chinese economies TBH ......

BikerGran · #7 Post by **BikerGran** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 11:24 am

Whatever! Not ours anyway!

D-Rider · #8 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 11:29 am

Nooj · #9 Post by **Nooj** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:01 pm

It will help our economy, think of all the otherwise unemployable twerps that Halfords will be employing to fit DAB receivers into people's cars.

Gio · #10 Post by **Gio** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:43 pm

HowardQ wrote:I have posted on this one before Gio.
You won't be having a radio any more in anything other than a brand new car or a very old one with a standard DIN size radio.
All three cars in our household have unique fit radios with displays that incorporate other information as well as the radio.
So you won't be fitting a digital unit in here!
There is no way that car manufactures are going to start making retro fit digital conversions for all their old models, so I reckon is good bye to radios in the car.
Call it progress mate!
Just console yourself by the fact that the money they make selling the wave bands will help them solve "our" debt crisis.

Well I musta missed it and TBPH I don't care if radio's are out of cars, I can't stand it anyway while driving.