"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:19:34 GMT, "Woody" wrote:

"Rob" wrote in message
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
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



Already there. There is a housing replacement for most custom-fit car
radios to convert them to standard DIN size, and usually the interface
cabling as well.

Go have a browse in Halfords some time and you'll see what I mean.

You need two separate items, the facia adaptor and the wiring harness
adaptor.

d


That's what I said - do you really need to duplicate it?

For the record you may need two, even three wiring harness adapters.


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