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Quite a few DAB radios sold in the UK already support DAB+. What make and model of DAB radio did you buy? (52.9548,-1.1581)
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"trevorjharris: ...My view is the the Internet will eventually become the technology of choice for both radio and television."
As a transport system I'm inclined to agree. But unless everything is going to be accessed through a smart phone, we still need some well designed hardware devices with good feature sets, to find and play all these radio and TV streams though... (52.9548,-1.1581)
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It's a bit of a biased cost analysis. As I suspect most people plug their radios into mains nowadays.
Anyway there are other reasons why it's not a good idea to listen to radio on a TV, such as shortening the it's life-span. It wouldn't be so bad if TV's could be configured to switch off the screen after a few seconds and wake up when a button on the remote is pressed. But that ship has sailed... (52.9548,-1.1581)
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Sorry Brian, I missed that comment by Stan.
Personally I use rechargeable batteries in all just about all of my battery powered gear. And would not even consider buying a battery powered product if it did not offer a battery recharging option.
And yes you can manually switch off the screen, but it's not done by default (and there's no configurable menu option)?
This topic is raising some interesting points... (52.9548,-1.1581)
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1976. That takes me back...
I bought a JVC 3060 (Radio, TV, Cassette Recorder) in 1976 from a shop called Laskys in Nottingham, under the Victoria Centre. It had a 3 inch black and white TV screen with UHF/VHF tuners and FM, AM, SW tuners. I used it to pick-up long distance TV.
Unbelievably it got stolen and returned twice! The second time it was stolen, I thought it was gone for good, so purchased the upgraded JVC version, which had a 5 inch colour screen. Sadly, this too got stolen from my place of work (in 1987) but never came back.... Good times. (52.9548,-1.1581)
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I've just performed a scan. And can confirm that channel 26 currently carries just three standard-def TV channels: Notts TV, Pop and Chart Show TV (52.9548,-1.1581)
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Nice to see that 'Channel 4+1 HD' and '4seven HD' has been added to the line-up today...
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Just a thought....
It would be really handy if each (Freeview, Sky, Freesat) column could list the channel numbers in numerical order
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Thursday 17 April 2014 7:00PM
The same mistakes are being made with DAB as they were with DVB-T TV...
The ability for consumers to buy an FM 'only' radio should have been phased out over a set period of years.
Manufacturers should have been encouraged (through legislation) to only make and sell products with joint DAB and FM tuners after a set date. So over the 'set period of years' more people would have ended up having a DAB capable device whether they knew they wanted it or not! (52.9548,-1.1581)