Hi Keith!

"Keith G" wrote in message
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I've got it bypassed, but how long does it take to bugger up the screen on
a
valve (CRT) telly with a fixed 'radio station' logo?

Why not route the audio to your hifi. Then you don't need to keep the TV
turned on.

Conversely, will routing the digibox through a DVDR (which needs to be
switched on) for hours at a time do any harm to said DVDR? (Heat, laser or
summat?)

I'm not an expert but I think the laser only operates during 'play'.

Anybody know a two click way of getting the audio only (up to 6 hours
worth!) off a DVD-RAM disk to HD/CDRW?

Use a computer with a DVD-RAM drive and a CD-RW (or DVD-RW) drive.

Do the Freeview bitrates compare favourably with DAB broadcasts?

They are better than DAB. The encoding method is also better than DAB.

Is 'digital radio' really *radio* at all or is it just TV with a very
boring
picture?

As it's just a digital datastream, the question is academic.

Is that right 'digital radio' will also broadcast pictures.... ?? (getting
*really* confused now!)

I believe it's possible but it would probably mean a further reduction of
the already dire bitrates.

If they broadcast pictures with the radio will they be wanting a TV
licence
fee paid...???

Since there are no DAB radios capable of displaying pictures at present,
this question cannot be answered. The politicians probably haven't even
thought about it yet. However, the WWW shows pictures but your computer is
not classified as a TV receiving device (unless it contains a TV tuner
card). So I would expect that DAB radios will not be classified as TV
recievers. I wouldn't put it past TV Licencing to try and argue otherwise
though :-(