DAB the new Betamax

[String]

Originally Posted by Scubee

I don't understand why my DAB radio (virgin) is about half a second or so behind the analogue in my son's room.

Digital latency. Delay in encoding, decoding the stream, buffering and error checking and so on.

[Woz]

Originally Posted by benpanter

Probably all depends where you are. My freeview reception is still rubbish, but DAB is absolutely amazing. Really, really impressive sound quality and tens of stations (I only really listen to R1,2&4 though...). Must get round to going up on the roof and having a poke at the aerial...

make sure you take an emu with you.

[MarkP]

Originally Posted by Woz

make sure you take an emu with you.

I thought you only had to do that in Hull?

[Steve Jones]

Originally Posted by Marky Mark

Hi All

I saw on the news this morning that the rot has started with Digital Radio, my favorite station Planet Rock has been pulled,

When is Planet Rock being pulled?

The only decent rock station on the radio.

I am already in mourning.

Steve

[Steve Jones]

Originally Posted by Steve Jones

When is Planet Rock being pulled?

The only decent rock station on the radio.

I am already in mourning.

Steve

Just had a look at their web site. Apparently they will close on March 28th unless there is a buyer for the station.

Steve

[pieater]

I had to get a DAB radio as I am hopelessly addicted to Talksport; even the bits that bug the sh!t out of me (like John Gaunt and George Galloway) - but then, that is their purpose.

They only broadcast in MW and DAB. I didn't mind the crackle on the MW, but the occasional total lack of reception got to me. As they are part of Murdochs evil empire I think they were denied an FM license. Which was a bit of a rip off by the regulators, as they have implicitly encouraged more people to buy DAB. While such marketplace manipulating is condoned, there will remain a future for DAB.

I'm surprised a station is being pulled. I heard today that a station on DAB that did nothing but play birdsong for 18 hours a day was doing very well.

[aclivity]

If you like Planet Rock, (or Planet RAWWWWWWWWWKKKKKKKKK), have you tried BBC 6 Music?

If you don't have capped broadband, there is loads of content on internet radio - www.reciva.com lists them all. I listen to Radio Io It's a bit like "listening to your mate's record collection" - the sort of mate who plays one track from each album, going "listen to this, it's brilliant".

I hope DAB isn't going the way of Betamax, although the sound quality in DV3 is better, I understand. I've got 2 DAB radios, although they only ever seem to get Radio 4.

[Steve Jones]

Originally Posted by aclivity

If you like Planet Rock, (or Planet RAWWWWWWWWWKKKKKKKKK), have you tried BBC 6 Music?

OK first question the Beeb 6 on DAB?

If you don't have capped broadband, there is loads of content on internet radio - www.reciva.com lists them all.

No good I listen to Planet Rock all day when i am out of the office travelling from one place to another

Betamax

BTW Finally threw out my 24 year old Betamax over Xmas, and it was still in working order.

Steve

[Steve Jones]

Any chance of a whip round to save the jobs of ageing old rockers who have had shows on Planet Rock:

To name but a few:

Rick Wakeman (best radio show ever)
Fish
Tony Ayomi
Ian Anderson
Alice Cooper
Phil Manzanera

Dump the BBC, save Planet Rock

Planet Rock, the UK's Classic Rock DAB Digital Radio Station.

[aclivity]

I bought a new toy yesterday, and I am now as happy as a happy thing in happy land!

I've been looking at internet radio for a while, and decided to buy a tuner (well sort of, I suppose you would call it a "client" device) for my hifi when they were cheap. I've bid on a few on eBay but never won the auction. Anyway, I was in Currys Digital on Saturday, using up time before going to the theatre. I went for a nose about the internet radio section, where I found a Logik IRMA-1 - the one I've been bidding on - for £35. I think they are stopping selling them, it could be clearance stock? Anyway, it's fab, not only is it an internet radio, it's also a music streamer so I can play music from the hard drive of this PC through my big hifi.

But the internet radio thing sort of makes CD's irrelevant - I've spent a good few hours scanning around different internet radio stations and found loads, whatever kind of mood I could be in, there is music to suit it!

Shame it won't work in the car, or anywhere with a secure network (unless you know the WEP or WPA key), but as this is for my home hifi and it's about 6 feet from the router, it's fine by me! I've also got a 20mb connection that is pretty much rock solid, with no download cap - at 192kbps a few hours listening might push you towards some of the smaller capped limits that are out there on ADSL broadband.