{"id":7479,"date":"2011-12-22T18:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7479"},"modified":"2011-12-22T18:59:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:59:40","slug":"dab-in-car-radio-analogue-switch-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7479","title":{"rendered":"DAB In-car Radio, Analogue Switch-off"},"content":{"rendered":"

This report in What Car? talks of plans to switch off the analogue radio service and go completely digital. It points out that 90.7% of the UK population listens to the radio every week, but only 2% have in-car DAB.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s worded right, it\u2019s like saying 90% of the population eats chicken, but only 2% buy large eggs! It\u2019s meaningless. And deliberately alarmist.<\/p>\n

\"Pure<\/a>What Car? tries to argue that cars without DAB will have less value. Well, seeing how you can get a Pure Highway (with FM transmitter) for as little as \u00a360, you\u2019d have to be selling one hell of a banger to someone with extremely odd priorities for it to be a significant financial burden.<\/p>\n

And just think of that lovely clear FM spectrum to tune into when the switch-off happens. I expect that What Car? experts think that turning off the analogue signal means it isn\u2019t there anymore!<\/p>\n

On the radio, Halfords is advertising daily that they can fit a DAB radio into \u201calmost any make of car\u201d.<\/p>\n

It reminds me of a situation I\u2019ve mentioned before. Back in the early 80s, the standard storage device for a home computer was a cassette tape recorder. Magazines had cassette tapes stuck to the front in those days. But disk drives were becoming affordable, and many started switching to floppy disks instead.<\/p>\n

There was uproar. Well, what it was really was the loudest and stupidest people just making a lot of noise. They opposed the change. I suppose 200-odd years ago they\u2019d have been called Luddites. Today, they\u2019re just idiots.<\/p>\n

The sooner we go digital, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This report in What Car? talks of plans to switch off the analogue radio service and go completely digital. It points out that 90.7% of the UK population listens to the radio every week, but only 2% have in-car DAB. If that\u2019s worded right, it\u2019s like saying 90% of the population eats chicken, but only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,90,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-computer-tech-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t