Radio changes.

lilac_lady

When will analogue radios become unusable?

penrhyn

2015 if you believe Nu Liebour.
I doubt it will happen as quickly, think of the number of car radios that would stop working.

buglawton

I already use an iPod Touch with a cheapo £5 FM MP3 transmitter plugged into it to get internet radio on any FM set in the home. So I know that no matter what happens to FM in the UK, I'll still be able to make good use of these old radios. I'll keep any reliable old radio that has good sound/reception for this reason - usable forever.

But I am not in the market to buy any more DAB radios (have 1 so far) due to the uncertainties around it - the UK ought to upgrade to DAB+ before anyone can take this new medium seriously.

By the time/if FM national broadcasting is finally phased out I am certain there will be easy to use Internet-to-FM radio converters, all in one box, available anyway.

googler

Has anyone in the government SERIOUSLY considered the scale of the recycling/refuse/landfill that will be generated by the scrapping of EVERY analogue radio in the land?

We're not just talking about stand-alone radios here.

We're talking about the public having to replace anything which has a radio element contained in it, otherwise every radio user in the land having to use small-scale transmitters as described above, and having their signals clashing with each other.

Add them up - car radios combined with either a cassete player or CD player. Why should we have to scrap the CD and/or cassette?

Walkman-style radio/cassettes or radio/CD/mp3 players - again, why should we have to scrap the cassette, CD or mp3 component?

Move on to boombox-style portable radio/cassette/CD units, in-home mini and midi HiFi, which typically has radio/CD/cassette etc. etc. etc.

Thta's a LOT of landfill.

How do we get the govt to consider the environmental impact? Or do we just put them all in shipping containers and send them to China for them to salvage the raw materials?