OT/FOAK: DAB radio

After searching the web and not getting anything in simple English...

I would like to buy someone a DAB radio, but I want it to have a
record function - preferably recording onto cassette because if it
records onto something else, I'll have to buy the something else
portable player as well.

At the moment, all I can find that says it records DAB is a Morphy
Richards DAB EPG, and also Pure's Bug (although the MR claims its
unique in its recording). Both record onto SD cards so I'd need to get
something portable that plays back SD cards.

If this makes no sense, that's what happens when two techno numpties
talk...

 

http://www.argos.co.uk/ProductDisplayTRK019?partNumber=5129522

seems to fit the bill..

 

I assume you've run their postcode through the checker to see if they
can get DAB? - I have a lovely DAB radio, bought when we lived in Milton
Keynes, but it doesn't work since we moved house.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, SteveH amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

I'll give you a fiver for it but you'll have to send it FOC.

 

I don't know, but I would like to know the same, so if you find one
that works I'd be interested.

I have to say that all the DAB radios I've seen either look nasty or
are nasty. I can't understand the obssession with retro or funky
styling - why not just "normal"? The only one I've seen that was
vaugely normal cut out after a variable period of time when it was
playing digital radio. Pretty useless.

 

I've been thinking about DAB radios, but I'll prolly wait a bit in the
hope that they come down in price...

Whats an SD card?

 

Ergonomics.

 

That would most probably be a "Secure Digital" memory card.

(http://www.sdcard.com/usa/TextPage.asp?Page=2 for picture, specs and
discussion of capacity for different content-types...)

 

http://ws4.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=DENO-TU1800

 

They sound a bit shit, too. And they don't work in semi-basement flats: at
least not the radios I've tried

 

250 quid for a sodding radio?

<looks at ipaq, which is used for wireless 'net radio/listen again>

Fair point.

 

Sounds like there's a market for a DAB radio that a) isn't shit, b)
just works like a normal radio does.

 

We've got one of these:

http://audiovisual.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/ps_10400267/100282723.html

Plays MP3 CDs also.

 

And AM? That is a big plus for us cricket and TalkSport listeners

 

IKWYM. I spent ages to find one that looked ok to give as a present and
apparently its shite. Oh well.

Has anyone had a good experience of DAB radios?

 

I bought a Bush CR2004 DAB clock radio from John Lewis a month or so
back. It does exactly what I want of it - plays FM and DAB radio
stations and wakes me in the morning at the appropriate time.

http://www.johnlewis.com/Audio+and+TV/DAB+Digital+Radios/+By+Brand+/Bush/230217858/Product.aspx

I went for the CR2004 as a) it was one of the cheaper options and b)
it doesn't look like a bakelite refugee from the 50s.

 

The Blaupunkt 'Woodstock' car range are quite good.

 

Looks ok and if it does what it says on the tin then that's a result!
Thanks.

Currently my alarm clock loses about a minute each week so I'm
constantly having to readjust the time. Damn thing.

 

No, I can't stick this stupid wood look either. And asking around, the
opinion on digital radio overall appears to be "it's shite". So
perhaps we'll just leave it for a while...

 

Tks - didn't want to buy one online though. Although I have now
abandoned the task as apparently being way ahead of it's time.

AM? What use is that for cricket?