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Old 04-12-2012, 09:27   #15
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Re: The death of analogue radio

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq View Post
They killed analogue TV pretty fast...
TV is a different medium. For the most part you have to choose to sit down to watch it; you make use of the full range of services it provides; most of all, the set-top box necessary to convert an analogue TV for DVB-T is a fraction of the cost of an entirely new set.

Radios on the other hand are commodity items. They are cheap, they run on next to no power, they tend to accumulate until you have one in just about every room and most importantly you have them on in the background so the extra data services are next to useless most of the time. What would a set-top box adapter for a shower radio look like? What would it cost for one? More to the point, what would it cost to buy adapters, or new radios, for everywhere in the home we might want them? And how about our cars, where most people are happy with the original integrated radio-CD in the dashboard - how do you do a cost-effective DAB conversion on that?
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