Entirely depends on what you want to listen to. For me it is mostly R4, R4e, World Service, R2 occasionally, unless there is a specific programme on one of the other channels. And DAB is fine for me. These days DAB reception on portables seems better than FM. They are not expensive now, my latest is one of these and it is very convenient. Mains lead (long) terminates in micro usb connector, so it can also double as a phone or tablet charger.
In article , Dave Plowman (News) scribeth thus
Mono-polistic nature of the system;?..
In article , Simon T scribeth thus
Umm ... hi-fi and DAB should not be in the same sentences really;!.
The only station at like anything of a decent bit rate is BBC radio 3 the rest are way below that and invariably in Mono...
Yep national DAB carriage is a lorra loot...
Well thats sometimes done as if they commit to DAB transmission then they can hang onto their analogue licences odd I know but..
Cost and lack of advert revenue to support them.
Yes there're never short of money, lot of it swishing around in the church of the air;!..
It depends on what you want to listen to. I have a rather odd ball idea of what's good on the radio and that can be our local commercial stations and community radio and BBC radio 3 and 4 and sometimes depends where I'm listening.
Course not everything is available over the air whilst a lot is on the net so anything of interest on say Radio 3 than the hi speed Internet connection is around the best audio going. Some other foreign radio broadcasters are doing such services and good they are too.
I do sometimes use DAB but only on a small portable as on anything of a bigger system the rather poor audio quality is rather annoying and even olde FM can be quite good on a few stations. I do have access to quite a bit of satellite radio but most of the stuff I want is on Internet "landline" at home and FM in the car...
Actually, are there any small freeview boxes that have a channel number display on the front of the unit?
Stephen
There certainly were - Sony made one. Dunno about now. But you'd still need to know what number corresponded to the radio station. Unlike DAB, which will normally tell you which it is receiving.
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