Interesting article on the BBC news website about the change to Digital Radio, or DAB.

The change over to digital TV is well under way, and Wales is now 100% digital, there’s lovely now see. Less than two years to go before analogue TV is obsolete everywhere. The advantage TV has over radio is that a TV can be used with a set top box (which are almost always under the TV, set bottom box anyone?). A radio, however, is not convertible. Once the analogue service is turned off those radios are pretty much useless. In the home there are many ways of getting ‘radio’ and many people use their digital TV but once you are out and about portable or in a car it’s different. The biggest problem is car audio, millions of cars are going to need new radios. (Might be a good time to get into the ICE business?)

I was curious to see if retailers were still selling analogue radios, so I took a look in Currys and Comet.

99% of the radio equipment was DAB in both stores, but there were a few analogue sets on sale. I think those sets should have big red stickers on them:

THIS DEVICE WILL BE OBSOLETE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS

Meanwhile I am considering getting an Apple TV. Streaming audio off the web, all my music and video on my home entertainment system.

Way to go people, be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Digitise now.