If you are thinking of buying a new car in the UK soon you'd do well to check what sort of radio it has in the dashboard. Experts are predicting that cars without a DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) Radio fitted could be putting potential buyers off the deal, as retro-fitting a DAB radio or buying and installing a converter could be an unwelcome additional expense. Cars which already have a DAB radio fitted are expected to have a higher market value and will be easier to sell than those which have yet to be upgraded. With the switch-over to Digital Audio Broadcasting planned to take place in 2015 any driver of a vehicle with an FM only radio could be in for a rather quiet time with very few (if any) FM radio stations being available - almost overnight. It is thought there are in the region of more than 25 million FM car radios which would become obsolete and unusable once the Digital Switch-over is completed. The last-minute rush to upgrade will catch out many people and mean they end up paying over the odds to buy new radios and maybe having to pay for the fitting work to be carried out by professionals. Buying and fitting an adapter or converter could be a cheaper alternative to replacing that old FM radio. This would at least allow the driver and his or her passengers to continue to listen to their favourite radio stations and traffic reports.
However, as this would be an externally connected and fitted device it might not do much to enhance the appearance and value of the car. Indeed it could conceivably de-value the vehicle and force the owner to pay out for an expensive new radio before being able to sell their vehicle. No doubt with the law of supply and demand anyone leaving this until late could be facing very high prices. Now that may all sound rather gloomy, and in these times of recession the thought of having to pay out your hard-earned cash can only increase this gloom. But looking on the bright side DAB Radio does have a lot to offer the motorist. There are many more stations from which to choose from and along with the far superior audio quality digital offers these new radios will be considered a very nice feature for any car. The vast choice of stations already on offer will increase even more in the course of time, particularly after the 2015 Digital Radio Switch-over. The days of noisy, fading FM radio will soon be a thing of the past with high quality digital sound quickly becoming the norm. And with the capability of DAB radios to convey such a vast amount of information via their display panels we will soon be wondering how we ever managed with just the station name being displayed or in some cases just the frequency! Anyone who has used a DAB radio at home will understand just how advanced these radio are and how much useful more information they can present. They will, I'm sure, have found features such as the time display, station name display, artist or track names etc. a real boon.
However, as this would be an externally connected and fitted device it might not do much to enhance the appearance and value of the car. Indeed it could conceivably de-value the vehicle and force the owner to pay out for an expensive new radio before being able to sell their vehicle. No doubt with the law of supply and demand anyone leaving this until late could be facing very high prices. Now that may all sound rather gloomy, and in these times of recession the thought of having to pay out your hard-earned cash can only increase this gloom. But looking on the bright side DAB Radio does have a lot to offer the motorist. There are many more stations from which to choose from and along with the far superior audio quality digital offers these new radios will be considered a very nice feature for any car. The vast choice of stations already on offer will increase even more in the course of time, particularly after the 2015 Digital Radio Switch-over. The days of noisy, fading FM radio will soon be a thing of the past with high quality digital sound quickly becoming the norm. And with the capability of DAB radios to convey such a vast amount of information via their display panels we will soon be wondering how we ever managed with just the station name being displayed or in some cases just the frequency! Anyone who has used a DAB radio at home will understand just how advanced these radio are and how much useful more information they can present. They will, I'm sure, have found features such as the time display, station name display, artist or track names etc. a real boon.
From a safety point of view the fact that DAB radios are self-tuning can only be an added safety feature. No more fiddling with that tuning knob to 'tune in' the wanted station - never a very safe thing to be doing in a moving vehicle. How many accidents have occurred because the driver was distracted by trying to tune in their car radio, I wonder? Apart from the additional cost of upgrading to a mobile DAB radio the future of mobile broadcast radio in the UK is looking very rosy. The UK is at the forefront of developing and implementing this new technology on a national scale and will, I'm sure, be the envy of the motoring world. Do please start thinking about how this Digital revolution will affect you and the value of your car soon as 2015 is not that far away.
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