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**EX_STAB** · 14-01-2010, 09:41

I've had one of these for a year now. As soon as you move it, turn any electrical appliance on or off, walk past it etc it either loses the signal altogether or gets loads of static on it. A proper radio doesn't do this.

It lists loads of stations that it can't actually pick up. In fact my FM radio can get far more stations.

Have we been sold a pup with all this digital radio boll cks?

**Fredflintstonesdog** · 14-01-2010, 09:48

Same thing happens to mine in kitchen,but i do live in a crap reception area for most things sent over airwaves.Thank god for sky tv tho,listen to Planet Rock through that.

ffd

**vvaannmmaann** · 14-01-2010, 09:51

Mine buzzes just before the mobile rings.

**Border_Reiver** · 14-01-2010, 09:58

I have had a Portable / Mains Digital Radio for about three years . Reception is worse than FM and subject to clicks when anything mains electrical switched on . The battery life is about half that of a comparable FM set ... I feel sure battery manufacturers have had some influence in promoting Digital .
Not impressed .

**Sympathetic_Reaction** · 14-01-2010, 10:02

Digital is a con...always has been always will be...this include TV. The 'benefits' that are put forward are purely there is benefit the government and commercial suppliers, they give very little to the user.

TV is unavoidable, but radio I hope will fail to take over.

S_R

**Kirkz** · 14-01-2010, 10:16

I want analogue TV back as well!!!
The bloody TV either breaks up or looses the signal at the slightest change in weather conditions and it really p1sses me off

**auscam** · 14-01-2010, 10:29

Funny, I was thinking about this earlier today. Any Sigs types care to explain why a radio will sometimes 'drift off frequency' despite having been tuned properly? Some variation in atmospheric conditions, I assume...

**Grownup_Rafbrat** · 14-01-2010, 10:29

Originally Posted by Sympathetic_Reaction

Digital is a con...always has been always will be...this include TV. The 'benefits' that are put forward are purely there is benefit the government and commercial suppliers, they give very little to the user.

TV is unavoidable, but radio I hope will fail to take over.

S_R

Your hopes may be dashed S_R. A cunning plan is being hatched as we speak. Many new cars are now being fitted with Digital Radios. This is despite the fact that they are not designed for use 'on the move', and reception will be rubbish for most users. However, it's a very quick way of increasing the number of Digital Radios in the world, to the level where the Government will say 'it's time to turn off analogue and sell all the bandwidth'.

To refer to the earlier poster - none of this change is to benefit the listener!

And I want my old LW, MW, SW and FM back!

**plugbore295** · 14-01-2010, 11:37

Digital tv Pah snow rain crap signal,tv only able to record or watch one channe unless youve got a twin tuner model. each tele needs decoder.load of bollcks. nowt wrong with analoge.

**Mr_Deputy** · 14-01-2010, 11:53

I actually like AM stations! Plenty of choice and on the move in Europe you get better (less commecrcial) music and more of a sense of 'soul' in the region/area you are in. More likely to hear live sport and hear French/other radio presenters get over-excited (and possibly spontaniously combust) while presenting a cycle race stage finish or a big football game. Then through this madness, with a quick twiddle of the dial (obviously without slamming into local bad driver) comes the sweet crackly sanity of The World Service /Radio 4 (hopefully not women's hour and some rambling about what tampons women used in the blitz.) Maybe as I made an AM radio as a lad I have an added affection. although at home I always listen in FM or via SKY which we have relutantly.

I got talked into buying a digital radio by a friend who is a real music buff. I now doubt his judgement not for the first time in a decade of friendship. I compromised and bought a portable one which is an mp3 also. I can't get the damn thing to work well and if it does work I get choice of 6 stations none of which I am very excited about. Its not the free range of selection which I find excitng abour radio I feel like I am being force fed this limited choice so I don't use it. I use the mp3 and it has some audiobooks on it at the moment! I keep meaning to have another crack at the radio and get it work but reading this thread...I'm probably wasting my time. Plus I have added to the number of radios in circulation (I was aware of this before I bought and had to deliberate over that point) so I feel more annoyed.

I will be taking it to said mate's house though to try and get him to make it work. Then possibly throw it at him before making him get us beer for being stupid.