tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704984.post7082232755354138063..comments2023-09-25T12:03:00.637+01:00Comments on Tom Morton's Beatcroft: The slow, ugly death of DAB, dodgy design, and how I became a radio transmitter as well as broadcasterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704984.post-3490703415186062272008-02-14T14:54:00.000+00:002008-02-14T14:54:00.000+00:00Shame you're not on commission? shame I'M not on c...Shame you're not on commission? shame I'M not on commission too.<BR/><BR/>You started the ball rolling on your blog last year.<BR/><BR/>I then got Santa to bring a Logik Reciva over from London to Switzerland and since then have ben raving about it to any expats who will listen. Best thing ever.Catherine Nelson-Pollardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13292389495117523090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704984.post-21468974986571532532008-02-13T19:09:00.000+00:002008-02-13T19:09:00.000+00:00Hurray - DAB's Deid Most disappointed in your BBC ...Hurray - DAB's Deid <BR/><BR/>Most disappointed in your BBC Online colleagues posting this extremely pro DAB radio article online 11th Feb - but of course the BBC’s has vested interest.<BR/><BR/>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7238768.stm<BR/><BR/>If it’s come to the stage that the major benefits of DAB radio is that there is no “twiddling a dial to tune in” and the “choice of more stations” - it’s doomed. Now just when did you last see a recent and half decent FM tuner without presets? And if this choice is anything like the dire dross and repeats that are broadcast on the new BBC digital TV channels, no thanks. And anyway, as you say, that argument is more than shot down with the huge global internet radio selection.<BR/><BR/>The only thing I can’t understand is why BBC haven’t pushed the Government to try and re-introduce a Radio License (or at least increase it‘s proportion in the License Fee) though I suspect it’s too late and there are just too many other alternative sources and funding models available nowadays.<BR/><BR/>The DAB advocates never tell you about the lower bit rate levels and so the lower quality that the Beeb are broadcasting. Notice how the alleged 'CD quality' label has disappeared? That is unlike you and me, if you are in a reception area and can get it at all ….. <BR/><BR/>Or heard about the new DAB+ (2010?) - and that is not compatible with most of the present DAB radio's? I bet a very large percentage of the new DAB owners that bought in the BBC Christmas ‘advertising’ campaign haven’t either.<BR/><BR/>Even a ‘Radio Times’ featured an article/letter saying DAB is the new medium wave, see the ‘Sound Off’ panel, and read all about it here people<BR/><BR/>http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/<BR/>http://www.digitalradiowiki.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Pageobanclipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08898598047093022942noreply@blogger.com