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It seems hard to imagine that DAB-based radio services won't themselves be completely obsolete in another decade, given the ever-growing pervasiveness of Intern
by timsneath 6y ago
It seems hard to imagine that DAB-based radio services won't themselves be completely obsolete in another decade, given the ever-growing pervasiveness of Internet access through cell and satellite. I wouldn't be surprised if DAB was the first to shut down, with a reduced analog service remaining as a backstop for the few that need a broadcast solution and for national emergency scenarios.
- stormdennis 6y agoI don't have a DAB radio and I don't know anyone who has one. These days, even in the car my phone is my radio.
- chrisseaton 6y agoI’ve got four DAB radios around my house. What do you use instead? Always your phone? I find the one-touch interface to turn the radio on or off as I go past valuable. I guess I wouldn’t mind if they were really using the internet though.
- stormdennis 6y agoJust my phone, very occasionally the radio in the kitchen cupboard is called into use.
- brnt 6y agoI just don't have noise on all the time.
- chrisseaton 6y agoIf you don't listen to the radio much why are you in a thread about radio?
- brnt 6y agoWhy would I only visit threads on things I use much?
- chrisseaton 6y agoThis is like joining a thread about which fishing rod to use and saying 'none of this matters - I don't fish'. Or joining a thread about books and saying 'I just don't read'. It doesn't contribute anything useful to anyone. It's just noise. See?
- brnt 6y agoI wrote I don't need noise all the time. I didn't say I never listen to the radio. If you prefer to have no discussion, why visit a discussion board?
- arethuza 6y agoI recently went back to using a DAB radio in our kitchen rather than using my phone, largely because at 6:30am when I get up I want to just hit a single button for Radio 4 to come on!
- stormdennis 6y agoThat is one click fewer than I have with https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm added to my homescreen but I have the benefit of being able to go back to the start of the program. I don't know if that available on your DAB radio?
- arethuza 6y agoI've been listening to Radio 4 first thing in the morning for about 30 years - about 4 years ago I accidentally broke the power supply to our DAB radio so I started using my iPhone in a fancy dock/speaker. Which was fine. About a month ago I found the radio in a cupboard and thought that I should either throw it away or get a replacement power supply. Having done the latter I now find that I rather like having a dedicated Radio 4 early morning device - I don't have to remember where my phone is, I don't have to fit it into some dock or fiddle with an app and is still usable even if I have misplaced by glasses. The rest of the time I listen to whatever I want in our kitchen via my phone through a UE Boom bluetooth speaker which I inherited from our son. First thing in the morning, and before I have had any coffee, give me the good old fashioned (DAB) radio! Edit: I should also point out that as we are in a rural area our Internet connection isn't brilliant but we do have fantastic DAB reception as there is a transmitter about 1km away on top of a nearby hill.
- stormdennis 6y agoYeah it's nice to not have to think before you have your coffee of a morning.
- arethuza 6y ago
- est31 6y agoThe advantage of broadcast solutions is that there are no personalized ads and no tracking, unless of course your end device has those things, you use DRM, etc.