Before I get started, I should just say you can WIN a Digital Radio this month and it’s very easy to win. Enter HERE
Now, it’s been a little while since I’ve given you an update on Digital Radio here so I thought I better do a Craig David and Fill You In.
There’s heaps of literature that goes around about DAB+ in Australia and to be honest, it’s pretty confusing. I work in it and even I get confused so I’m gonna go purely top line here.
In the last quarter, over 100,000 Digital Radios were sold and in the last year, there has been around 500,000 sold. Now that’s just a stand alone Digital Radio and doesn’t include radios with iPhone docks etc, this is great success!
Some big news is that in 2012, there is going to be even more Digital Radios in cars!! Hoorahh!!
Now a few of the luxury cars (BMW, Audi,Volvo, VW, Fiat) have included Digital Radios but the Toyota Altara (It replaces the old and boring Camry) will be one of the first mid-range priced car to include a Digital Radio.
Look how mother effin sexy that is, hopefully Toyota sends me one… wink wink
All jokes aside though, we know that Ford in the UK will be having Digital Radios in their fleet as well so it’s only gonna be a matter of time before you hear my dulcet tones in your Ford Festiva.
Next up is the picture at the top of the page. This is a product that’s available pretty much everywhere in the world except Australia.
WHAT THE EFF!!!
Basically, what this does is it plugs in to your iPhone via it’s protective case. So you don’t even know you’ve got this add on.
Oh, I should mention, it’s also a portable battery too in case your phone gets low.
Look at how effin stylish this is!
Anyway, you download the Lingo App and then away you go, you can listen to Digital Radio with all the you-beaut features like the display of artwork, the now and next playing and the scrolling text along the bottom. Check out the UK website here
We did some digging around and found this in Hong Kong for about $90 which considering I have the exact same thing sans Digital Radio and it cost me $80 from JB, this is a pretty sweet deal.
Last but not least, here’s a Digital Radio we’re rating at the moment.
Now the beauty about this is that it has an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) so you know when your favourite shows are coming up AND you can record them via a SD card so say if you wanted to hear my one hour gardening show, you could just record it.
I have a Grundig at home and it’s a bad ass Digital Radio.
If you wanna buy this one, I’ve shopped around and the best price you can get is from Big W for $154.00
You can also check out the full range of Bush Digital Radios and TV’s, set top boxes and heaps more Here
I’ll be back before Christmas/hanukkah to give you some sweet gift ideas of the Digital Radio type but don’t forget you can enter our Win a Digital Radio competition HERE
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