Here we go, another giant leap for mankind; digital radios. You can now switch on your radio in the kitchen and receive the most extraordinary interference, just as if you were having a picnic on the moon and chatting to mission control at Houston. In other words, not understand a single word spoken, or recognise a song sung, which in some cases could be a good thing as Radio 2 is now sounding more like Radio 1. Does all that sound confusing? Well I am. New technology is supposed to give us cheaper and better err, things and stuff.
My digital radio not only looks retro design but sounds so retro that it might just as well be a crystal set! Every time the fridge is opened or someone moves within a metre of it, Terry Wogan disappears into the ether (is this a bad thing? well yes as it is not selective and will even destroy ‘ask Elvis’ on the Steve Wright show!!)
Then we have the digital TV, marvellous! as long as you have a screen which fills the living room wall, because anything smaller won’t pick up the digital signal for half the stations, so when you switch channels to get back to terrestrial TV you have to decypher the varied and confusing symbols on the remote, because they are all different on every one of them, and by which time you’ve missed the crucial bit in ‘The Bill’ which means you don’t know what’s going on for the next 10 episodes!
Please bring back short, medium and long wave and FM for radio and terrestial TV, or just crystal sets, BBC1 and 2, plus ITV and to hell with progress.
