"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Keith G
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I believe a number of other factors have ensured the 'FM Receiver'
remained less popular in the UK - there's the difficulty of getting a
signal clean enough for (relatively) sensitive tuners which renders
an
adequate tabletop or portable 'radio' a better solution for many
people
and the arrival of the 'telly' put paid to 'serious radio' listening
in
the evenings for the great majority of Brits.

It was also the case that FM Stereo and Colour TV arrived in the UK in
a
similar time period, and that the BBC tended to give priority to
expanding
the Colour TV network. The result was that FM Stereo only expanded
slowly.
For some years in the UK 'stereo' was for occasional programmes on
radio 3,
from the transmitters in the south-east. So much so that HFN used to
list
each month the couple of dozen broadcasts for the next month. They
fitted
into two or three column inches. Clear sign that by then 'radio' was
the
poor relation of 'TV' so far as the BBC were concerned. And of course
there
were no national independent broadcasters for radio...


I think the same scant regard for 'audiophiles' is being demonstrated
with the cavalier attitudes to bitrates on DAB. The sad truth, of
course, is that what they transmit is plenty good enough for the great
majority of the people!

But I'm afraid I carry the same sentiment across all 'digital'
platforms - contrary to the pop vox, I believe 'digital' represents a
lowering of 'real quality' standards and that most people are blinded by
the vast choice/speed of access/relatively low cost of 'digital
anything' and cannot see that, although there is *more* of everything
with superficially 'better specifications', so much more of it is
actually *life-wasting* crap!

(In short - *Remote Controls* are the tools of the Devil!! :-)