Is the fitted radio in a new car to become history?
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Personally I couldn't imagine a car not being fitted with a radio, but times they are a changing! Over to you for thoughts please....
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I think the built in radio will fade out for a lot of people, but I would miss it. Streaming is fine when the signal is good, yet on a long drive through the desert outside Albuquerque it drops out and the local stations still work. I also like being able to turn a knob and hear traffic or weather without picking up my phone. A simple backup like that still feels useful in a new car.
It staggers me that there are still people out there who listen to radio or watch broadcast TV services? Why? Genuinely, why? Inane chatter and music picked for you indispersed with annoying ads and jingles. Jeez, go get a Spotify or Apple Music subscription.
The only exemption is live sport I suppose, and I listen to TMS, though still streamed through an app.
The only exemption is live sport I suppose, and I listen to TMS, though still streamed through an app.
I have pretty much given up streaming amazon music / spotify / internet radio etc from my phone. There are so many times that the signal drops out that it is incredibly frustrating, and then distracting getting it to start again.
DAB pretty useless too, and has an appalling bitrate.
There are very few places that FM radio drops out.
I never get drop outs when playing CD's
and they sound SO much better than all of the above (although a good FM signal isn't bad).
DAB pretty useless too, and has an appalling bitrate.
There are very few places that FM radio drops out.
I never get drop outs when playing CD's
and they sound SO much better than all of the above (although a good FM signal isn't bad).chris1roll said:
I have pretty much given up streaming amazon music / spotify / internet radio etc from my phone. There are so many times that the signal drops out that it is incredibly frustrating, and then distracting getting it to start again.
DAB pretty useless too, and has an appalling bitrate.
There are very few places that FM radio drops out.
I never get drop outs when playing CD's and they sound SO much better than all of the above (although a good FM signal isn't bad).
I've never tried any of that streaming malarkey, it's way beyond my abilities! DAB pretty useless too, and has an appalling bitrate.
There are very few places that FM radio drops out.
I never get drop outs when playing CD's
and they sound SO much better than all of the above (although a good FM signal isn't bad).DAB often goes quiet with the head unit saying "No Signal" even though I only live 5 miles or so outside the M25.
FM is better, but many of the decent stations seem to have moved to DAB. Absolute Radio is now only on DAB, replaced by Greatest Hits crap on FM.
CDs are my salvation!
Radio in the car : wife immediately put that inane claptrap of radio2 on she claims it's for the traffic, son runs Radio 1 anthems, i don't unless it's R3.
I prefer the CD player or depending upon which car I'm in the music on my 'phone Btoothed to a stand along speaker.
Up here DAB is something for sherbet, we can get the BBC main stations but the drop out when you go through some trees or behind a cliff
I used to love radio but it's turned into gormless "personalities" chatting to "uninteresting" phone in people, like facebook on the radio
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I prefer the CD player or depending upon which car I'm in the music on my 'phone Btoothed to a stand along speaker.
Up here DAB is something for sherbet, we can get the BBC main stations but the drop out when you go through some trees or behind a cliff
I used to love radio but it's turned into gormless "personalities" chatting to "uninteresting" phone in people, like facebook on the radio
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