DAB radio under £15. DAB Alarm clock under £20

An internet radio does not need a computer to work. If you have a wifi broadband router the radio connects to it directly, so you do not have to have a computer on to listen and you can move the radio wherever you need it within the house. Some also have the ability to use an ethernet cable, but that limits your ability to move the radio.

I did say getting an internet radio is a no brainer if you have a wifi network. I guess most of the people on here have broadband and a very high proportion have wifi.

Let me give you some examples of the huge advantages of internet radio:

1. You can listen to your former local radio station wherever you are in the world. My football team has an arrangement with Radio London whereby commentary on all my team's games is broadcast on the web. So I never miss a game on my internet radio though I no longer live in London. All of the BBC local radio stations broadcast on the web. Similarly, you can listen to local radio stations in brazil, australia, india, etc.
2. You love the afternoon play on Radio 4, or the afternoon show on Radio 1, or a comedy programme on Radio 7 but listening conflicts with other aspects of your life. On an internet radio, simply select the station and 'Listen Again' rather than live, and choose the programme you want to hear from the last week. Wake up to Terry Christian's show on BBC Radio Manchester if you are particularly masochistic.
3. There are specialist stations for almost every taste - Baroque around the Clock, Beatles, Elvis, Trance, Beethoven, classical music from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Austrian radio, Country from Nashville, etc. An amazing choice.
4. Listen to podcasts.
5. Most internet radios have the ability to stream audio files from your computer too.

There is a decent choice of cheap radios too:
- Search for the IRMA at www.currys.co.uk for £34.97
- The IR100 is currently priced at £69.99 at PC World, but was £44.99 last week and has been as low as £40. The price changes a lot (latest firmware on these first two radios makes them much better than earlier).
- The new Intempo Galaxy with an ethernet connection as well as wifi is available for £80 at Tesco. See http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.202-1244.aspx
- www.robertdyas.co.uk has the Morphy Richards at £69.99
- ebuyer has Vistron MX-200i internet radios for £50.49.
- Aldi has Tevion internet radios for about £35.

Don't forget to save more money with quidco too.

mcallister1 wrote: »

Thanks musical norwich. I've got a DAB radio but am wondering if the internet ones are lighter on power use? As the DAB uses a lot of power.

To use a DAB radio, you just plug in the DAB radio.

To use an internet radio, you have to plug in your internet radio AND your broadband modem AND your broadband router.

Whitemonk wrote: »

To use a DAB radio, you just plug in the DAB radio.

To use an internet radio, you have to plug in your internet radio AND your broadband modem AND your broadband router.

Nah, people normally have their broadband modem and router plugged anyway.

I just plug in my internet radio and that's it.

By all means, get a DAB radio though, and while you're at it, get a HD-DVD player - I hear they're going cheap too!

Cad wrote: »

Speaking as an ex-BBC audio engineer, I'm always puzzled by the assertion that analogue FM inherently 'sounds better' than DAB.
[...]
My personal opinion is that DAB—whenever I've heard it, anyway—delivers much better sound quality than analogue FM transmissions.

Eh?

DAB Radio 4 = Mono <=80kbs

FM Radio 4 = Stereo 50Hz--15kHz (Only labradors will miss the stuff above 15k and most peoples speakers will struggle to reproduce much below 50Hz)

I know which I prefer.

All the best - Gundo (not a broadcast engineer but BSc Physics FWIW)