Reply to post: DAB is the only thing that works reliably here

The future of radio may well be digital, but it won't survive on DAB

Keith Oborn

DAB is the only thing that works reliably here

FM is almost useless, 3/4G mobile drops out if you move your heard - never mind the car.

DAB has the odd blank spot on the road, that's all, but never garbles.

DTV is messy: lost BBC4 HD in March, and it looks like the only way is an even bigger aerial.

Of course, this may be because I live in a very out of the way place called Basingstoke (someone has to)

I can *see* the local transmitter (Hannington) that FM, DAB and TV comes from.

BTW, El Reg: "FM already uses MPEG audio" (I paraphrase for brevity). WTF??

DAB is not perfect, and it's always a problem when you are an early adopter as the BBC was, but for the vast majority of current use it does seem to beat the others.

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