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....time to upgrade me thinks......funny how you dont mind shelling out 600 large for the Tansceiver for mobile but scrimp on the other.....perhaps im just tight... 
POINTS 38 AND 39
38 One other aspect of our national infrastructure – that of sound radio – requires a clear direction from Government. The diverse and flexible nature of the medium places it at the forefront of device and platform convergence. It has many routes to digital, piggy-backing on other platforms – the Internet, mobile phones, digital broadcast television, satellite and cable. But as a medium it is more than just another stream of audio. Its appeal to the listener is that it is portable, intimate, and ambient as a medium. Those aspects cannot easily be delivered unless radio has its own dedicated digital medium – DAB – for which 9 million sets already exist in homes and cars.
39 The Government accepts that analysis and proposes, with the industry, the supply chain and consumers the process of Digital Upgrade so that all our national broadcast radio stations are DAB-only from the end of 2015. To that end, the Government is looking to the BBC to extend national DAB coverage so that it is at least comparable to FM radio coverage; and to the supply chain to deliver a range of DAB radios at the key sub-£20 price point that makes swap-out economic . The Government will also work with the automotive industry, and with the Commission and other key member states in Europe (one of whom has already indicated its intention to prohibit analogue-only radios in vehicles from 2013) on the five point plan set out in this Digital Britain Report to enable the majority of the vehicle parc to be converted to digital before 2015 and with low-cost converters for the remainder.
Don't forget that most of the DAB transmitters aren't running at full power because of the current Analogue service (same with DVB).g0slq wrote:After a promising start, the quality and lack of channels on DAB is awful.
Yes, you may get a few stations that your average radio will not pick up - but most of these are available online anywhere. To me, DAB has been neglected and the only advantage I see is 5 Live and Talk Sport don't suffer from the normal AM, but all of my other stations - especially FM are no better, indeed worse than a decent quality FM radio & antenna.
The much-vaunted "near CD quality" never arrived.
If the expensive and better quality radios are suffering because of lower bit rates, I shudder to think what the quality of these sub-£20 radios will sound like.
Internet radio p*sses on DAB for sheer versatility, thousands of stations, worldwide, many genres inc. comedy, rock, pop, country, talk, sports, religion etc.
None of them match good old FM for quality though - Still, 7 years to produce something half-decent.
