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According to a post below, you would lose the bet. Reddit also claims that several phones have supported FM antenna passthrough via USB-C. I imagine adding ana
by musicale 2y ago
According to a post below, you would lose the bet. Reddit also claims that several phones have supported FM antenna passthrough via USB-C.
I imagine adding analog FM radio isn't a major selling point on a phone where you can already stream the digital feeds from most FM stations – not to mention Spotify, Youtube, Apple Music, etc.
- GJim 2y ago> you can already stream the digital feeds from most FM stations That will use up your data. By contrast FM radio is free, and we have some bloody good BBC radio stations in blighty.
- esskay 2y agoReminds me of being in 6th form and listening to Radio 1 on my iPod. Those used to support FM just fine!
- musicale 2y agoOh, the legendary iPod radio remote! https://ipodwiki.com/wiki/IPod_Radio_Remote https://ipodwiki.com/wiki/IPod_Radio_Remote Shows Apple can do FM if they put their mind to it. RIP iPod Classic (2007-2014).
- nindalf 2y ago> That will use up your data. Where do you live that you're worried about data? Is this an American thing? I've lived in Asia and Europe and data is so cheap and plentiful that I'm never changing my behaviour to save a few MBs. Or are you not worried about data but you're trying hard to make a case for this FM antenna that no one wants in their phones?
- datavirtue 2y agoNevermind your data. During natural disasters, as was the case in North Carolina, everyone loses cell coverage.
- chgs 2y agoThey said they lived in the UK
- diegolas 2y agonice to see that you have no problem seeing things from another person's POV
- antifa 2y agoThe problem in the US is price gouging and ISPs accepting government money to improve infrastructure then pocketing it instead.
- chgs 2y agoMy understanding in America is that FM is full of pirate transmissions blocking real channels and thus reducing usefulness of FM for the majority. American culture leans “against the feds”, it really is wackamole trying to shut them down, on the other hand it drives more subscriptions to satelite radio which is good for the gdp, so win win. Hell I believe this is even the case in London, just not as extreme.
- 0_____0 2y agoI live in the US and can't recall ever having come across a pirate station. Sometimes people have little FM transmitters in their cars to get audio to their car stereos, but those have a range of meters.
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- SamBam 2y agoI love your vision of America, and want to live there.
- K0balt 2y agoMy thoughts exactly. Sad.
- pak9rabid 2y agoMan, you give us too much credit :p
- yardie 2y agoNot as many pirate radio stations as they’re used to be in the 80s and 90s. A few friends were running them from unsecured buildings back in the day. It’s where I first tuned into a younger DJ Khaled, LOL. The FCC started cracking down heavily by the 00s. And they were eventually replaced by community radio stations. Properly licensed, tend to have more religious, and marketed towards immigrant communities who don’t follow western, English speaking news. Those pirate radio stations are still out there just with a low power license and a sheen of legitimacy now.
- musicale 2y ago> By contrast FM radio is free, and we have some bloody good BBC radio stations in blighty Unfortunately my antenna can't pick up the FM signal, and iPlayer is geo-blocked, but... I do seem to be able to stream some BBC radio stations and program[me]s via the magic of the internets.
- eptcyka 2y agoOne good reason to use FM instead of the internet is that it scales better - you can have practically infinte receivers, wheras most digital radio on the internet will deliver the same content for each listener individually, thus using more bandwidth per listener.
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- lxgr 2y ago5G has a broadcast option, but I’m not sure if that’s supported by any commercially available phone yet.
- namibj 2y agoApart from some old 3G tech demos with TV streaming, none of the user data multi/broad cast functionality from 3GPP cellphone standards reached a usable state in consumer hardware, with the single obvious exception being cell broadcast (basically broadcast SMS, by my understanding).
- lxgr 2y agoI’m also very doubtful, but at least in Austria it’s being touted as a potential DAB alternative. (That might just be a strategic device by the incumbent public transmitter operator though – they have ubiquitous FM coverage, which helps avoid competing programs on DAB out by decreasing the utility of buying a DAB receiver.)
- eptcyka 2y ago5g having broadcast is closer to FM rather than the internet. Broadcast does not work on the internet.
- musicale 2y agoRTP and multicast though...
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