digital radios

But if you have two TVs on in the house you'll get the problem you're complaining about with DAB.

In article , Dave Plowman (News) scribeth thus

Theres still that problem of around 30% of the listenership that haven't got a DAB receiver in their car?..

Ironically enough one of the reasons it was invented for;!...

In article , Dave Plowman (News) scribeth thus

As a TV sound engineer you might Dave, but is it the same for the man in the Clapham bendybus;?..

In article , Dave Plowman (News) scribeth thus

Well thats the bloody obvious!

I thought we were talking about conventional UK Band 3 T-DAB?...

It is - well most are.

I think the language changes and "radio" will soon come to mean audio broadcasting, by radio waves or otherwise. If it hasn't already.

Conversely CCTV used to mean an actual copper circuit but doesn't any more.

Don't you get that anyway, with digital TVs?

They are all on the internet (with probably a different delay) and with listen again I'm now listening to the Wyrd sisters..

..would have his DAB radio removed promptly by the clapham chavs.

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:44:17 +0000 someone who may be Mike Barnes wrote this:-

A time signal before the news goes back to the first day of broadcasts by the British Broadcasting Company in November 1922, with chimes being played by the announcer on a piano and later on tubular bells.

A suggestion was made six months later that there should be a more accurate time signal, which became the pips. John Reith considered this and thought it a good idea, but that the chimes should be retained for the start of main news broadcasts. As I recall radio programmes on this (some years ago) Mr Reith thought that the pips were not warm/authoritative enough for main news broadcasts and so they were only to be used for more minor broadcasts. There were apparently a number of papers on the subject of the format of time signals.

The pips and live Big Ben were introduced in February 1924. They are still on Radio 4 following Mr Reith's formula and I would like both to remain. When ITN wanted an introduction for their news programmes they went for the bongs too.

has a fair amount of information about the pips, including the delays in analogue and digital transmissions.

I have an inkling that the pips are sent internally throughout at least parts the BBC every 15 minutes, as a time signal. They can sometimes be heard in the background of programmes about making programmes.

It has nothing to do with making it appeal to anyone. If you want the same delay everywhere then you must mandata a standard design for

MBQ

Err, why would you want to replace all the receivers with DAB ones? You've already said they offer no advantages to you - even ignoring the delay they create?

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:54:07 +0000 (GMT) someone who may be "Dave Liquorice" wrote this:-

At least there is BBC local radio in England. The rest of us pay for local radio but don't get any. Radios Scotland, Wales, Ulster/Foyle, nan Gàidheal and Cymru are not local, particularly in Scotland which is one third of the land area of the UK.

Yes - most will notice an echo that shouldn't be there from just the acoustics of the rooms.

DAB seems to be the same as FreeView in that delays vary within the actual receiver.

Eh? You've not been paying attention...

This is so. As regards how they are introduced it *used* to be via a locking switch in the continuity suite rather than via the studio where the prog is coming from. So when needed can be switched in early and out late, as there's silence between them. You couldn't do the same with Big Ben due to traffic noise, etc. If it were left to the studio they might decide to fade into them half way through if they were running late. Of course if it's forgotten to cancel the key after the pips they'll appear on the next quarter - as happens all too frequently these days.

It was and is "closed circuit" no mention of copper;)...

Sometime this year he's moving to Cambridge to be known as the man on the misguided bus;!...