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Radio's future?
"This year Radio is 100 years old. But most radios have a terrible user interface - a dial with numbers which don't tell you anything about the content behind it."
Radio has survived through generations. It has been widely used for decades and as most see it, it will continue to survive despite the onset of competing digital technologies. Most believe that radio will need to change it's current state in order to survive. This means joining the digital age and offering more advanced features such as song title, artist name, even images of album art. We have seen a bit of this in our current evolution of radio, but will not be able to benefit from the full impact until the medium is transformed to meet the growing need of media-hungry consumers.
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SacredVermin thinks: Radio will always be around. There will always be sections of the world that can't catch up with modernity as quickly as everyone else, and for them it's still a viable news and entertainment source. It may be outdated, but there's a thousand UI's for it and most importantly, it's cheap. There will always be program makers on the radio. As for the phasing out of analog... Well, I work with people who still have and use 5" floppy drives in their work environment. Don't ever expect something to truly fade from the masses.
(83% of 18 votes AGREE)
rollothered thinks: Radio is modern for goodness sake and has never been more popular than it is today - infinitely more users than the web lol. It works anywhere, it does not need a UI, it is cheap, it can be listened to while you work or cook or just laze around, no need to be literate, have vision ... It crosses all kinds of borders literal and those of mind and language. You can even get wind-up radios. The internet is liberating radio. Radios plugged into ADSL fixed and mobile and iPod are more use, informative/entertaining, than content poor pretty web pages. Never forget though that DAB, MP3 et al give a massive decrease in audio quality compared to FM analogue! Do people really need a digital UI - billions have managed to turn a dial since 1921.
(93% of 15 votes AGREE)
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