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"Robert Bannister" wrote in message
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> On 18/08/13 10:03 PM, Greg Goss wrote:
>> Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:13:50 +0000 (UTC), tmcd@panix.com (Tim
>>> McDaniel) wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article ,
>>>> David DeLaney wrote:
>>>>> Dave, and I don't know if anyone's mentioned the
>>>>> digitalness/push-buttonness of radio tuning now, vs the old
>>>>> turn-the-knob-and-it-creeps-analogically. and who knows what he'd
>>>>> make of the SEEK button
>>>>
>>>> (Since radio isn't usually important, I didn't want to consider it as
>>>> an actual impediment.)
>>>
>>> Another difference. I have seen road signs saying to tune to a
>>> certain AM frequency for traffic conditions.
>>
>> I remember that the highway conditions stations were often out-of-band
>> by a bit, say 1610 KHz. But now that I'm thinking of it, can you even
>> get there on a digital radio? I guess that they must be in-band
>> nowadays. In the analog era you could generally tune past where the
>> band should end by a bit.
>>
>
> As far as I'm concerned, digital radio is still in the crap stage. I've
> only got one digital radio, but the only place I can get it to work is in
> one of my bedrooms - not a place where I want to listen to radio. It has
> quite a long antenna for a portable set, but it's not good enough.
>
> As for FM radio, which is only marginally connected to digital radio, I
> never listen to it because every station is music, music, music. I like
> talking, though talk-back gets irritating.
I much prefer podcasts myself, mainly because they allow you to
listen to what interests you whenever you like, rather than when
they choose to broadcast them.
I much prefer talk too, radio national.
The ipod/iphone/ipad built in podcast system works very well indeed.
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