Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Doki wrote:
Does anyone know much about this? Is anyone kicking up a stink yet? If
they ever get round to it, I'll have umpteen useless radios (two or
three in various sheds, one in every car, two attached to the hifis
etc.), which is rather worse than a couple of tellys requiring adaptor
boxes. I really can't see people being pleased at having to fork out
for new car radios at £100 a pop. Or the pretty much sure to happen
increase of desirable to DAB radios to car theives...

IIRC all that has happened is a firm date to start *talking* about if and
when it will be switched off. My guess is a long long way off - if at all.
You can 'sell' FreeView through widescreen and a much larger choice of
progs than analogue - and even better reception for most for say CH5. But
no similar arguments with DAB v FM.


I think that's about right. Also, I've been looking at buying a second
hand car recently, and all of them made in the last 5 years have a
custom/modular FM radio - several million cars in the UK? Mind you, if
someone could figure out how to adapt these radios easily and cheaply
there's a good few quid to be made at some point.

Rob