digital switchoff

Lesley_Gaye

I bought a beautiful Bose radio in 2005/2006 which I love and use every day

next year, our region is due to have FM switched off to go digital

as far as I know, this means that my radio will no longer work. I have contacted Bose, who do a plugin digital tuner, but it won't work with my model (probably too old - sigh)

I use my iPod as an external feed to play music, and that works fine. I'm not too keen on even more trailing wires, but a plug in digital tuner seems to be the best option - don't really want to buy a new Bose radio - eek

so my question is, does anyone here have an opinion on what a good tuner option would be?

espresso

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

next year, our region is due to have FM switched off to go digital

Are you sure about that? see here and more here. Where did you get your info?

fwor

As far as I'm aware there are no plans to turn off FM radio transmissions when the digital TV switch-on happens.

There have been proposals to turn off FM radio in the past (one was to have taken place in 2013 IIRC), but the environmental impact of - for example - millions of car radios being scrapped means that it will be resisted (by me, for one).

Lesley_Gaye

espresso wrote: »

Are you sure about that? see here and more here. Where did you get your info?

fwor wrote: »

As far as I'm aware there are no plans to turn off FM radio transmissions when the digital TV switch-on happens.

There have been proposals to turn off FM radio in the past (one was to have taken place in 2013 IIRC), but the environmental impact of - for example - millions of car radios being scrapped means that it will be resisted (by me, for one).

fantastic I don't need to do anything for some time yet then

and I hadn't even thought of the car radio!

I can't remember now where I first heard, It's been on my mind for a while. Maybe it was when it was all going to happen, then the date changed and I missed it

we are alright for the tv as we have Sky, so digital already, maybe a bit of re-tuning

thanks for taking the time to reply

kwikbreaks

If it ever does happen, which I suspect it won't as the outcry would be huge, then I suspect that you'd be able to get the equivalent of a set top box for car radios (DAB receiver + FM transmitter). Presumably to counter thievery most car radios I've seen these days are pretty much part of the car rather than slot in jobs so replacing them would be next to impossible.