Got My Radio On (until 2015)...

This shouldn't have come as a shock - after all it was bound to happen - but it did. What it means is that in six years' time (if they stick to the date) every non-digital radio in your house - all those transistors all over the place - will be so much worthless junk and will have to be replaced with DAB radios. They may prate all they like about 'device and platform convergence' and about all the other platforms on which radio can 'piggyback', but the whole point of radio is to have a simple, working radio with reasonable sound and reliable reception anywhere you want it aound the house - 'portable, intimate and ambient', indeed. Have these people ever tried using a DAB radio in the way we use our humble transistor sets? If so, they should know that DAB sets are as good as useless. Reception is dodgy - very dependent on position, and liable to give out for no apparent reason (especially if you use battery power). This is why take-up of DAB has been so disappointing to the industry - it seemed like a must-have, until you actually bought a set. In the natural course of things, it would be heading rapidly for the technological graveyard, as the people who want such a diversity of channels are quite content to listen on the internet (internet radio is booming), while the people who just want reliable radio around the place tuned to Radio 4, or 3, or whatever, are definitely not served by DAB. If this goes ahead, radio listening is never going to be the same again. To the barricades! For Long Wave, Medium Wave and FM! Forward to the past! !