Have a look at the Connects2 website. They do all sorts of combinations to keep your original controls and dispalys. I have one of their interfaces to run a Sony Minidisc changer from the BMW radio cassette unit on my motorcycle. Works well.
Cos all I ever do is listen to the radio 2 & 4 and I don't want 47 buttons I don't understand, 18 special features I'll never use and a 'demo mode' screen showing gibberish that I can't turn off.
And I'd rather have £40 worth of radio, not £5 worth of radio & £35 worth of other stuff.
Bit like mobile phones innit? Try buying one that just makes phone calls....
It's economies of scale. Making a few thousand basic radios could make them more expensive than a mass produced more sophisticated one. And since the majority of designs will be for OEM, most would feel ripped off if their new car came with a basic radio.
And why are they all so small? Don't they realise older people use them too? ;-)
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian C saying something like:
Holy Shite! Is that what they're fetching now? I've got one of them languishing in the workshop and has been for years, providing choons.
In message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes
I threw a couple of them in a skip a couple of months ago
In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes
Even normal "wander" phones, I've just replaced my old ones at work which were "normal" size (about 8-9" long" with some piddly little ones which won't cradle in the shoulder properly
Oh for such a beast as a reasonably priced wireless headphone
What do you mean by reasonably priced? £26.94 Inc VAT
Holy s**te indeed, I had a similar basic car radio knocking about in a box some where but I think it's gone to the tip. If it hasn't...
... for a mobile phone or PC, not a normal landline
I can only guess the fancy price was because it was modified to give an aux input.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Plowman (News)" saying something like:
Five minute's work with an iron and two hundred quid better off.
More likely because it was claimed to cover both medium wave and >light< wave. Not too many of that model around.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Ian White saying something like:
Troo. Relatedly, I have a model which covers VHF & Local Radio - rare as hen's teeth.
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