{"id":1880,"date":"2007-03-23T17:40:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T17:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/03\/going_digital\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T17:40:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T17:40:21","slug":"going_digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/going_digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio Five Live is running a campaign to persuade us to go digital at the moment. It&#8217;s awful and condescending.<br \/>\nHave a listen yourself.<br \/>\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/odeo.com\/flash\/audio_player_gray.swf\" quality=\"high\" width=\"322\" height=\"54\" name=\"odeo_player_gray\" align=\"middle\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\"  type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"type=audio&#038;id=10092303\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/embed><br \/><a style=\"font-size: 9px; padding-left: 110px; color: #f39; letter-spacing: -1px; text-decoration: none\" href=\"http:\/\/odeo.com\/audio\/10092303\/view\">powered by <strong>ODEO<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nI listen to a lot of Five Live outside work, and I&#8217;m certainly in the digital community with DAB, broadband, Freeview and Sky as ways of listening to the station. But you know what? I mostly listen on AM.<br \/>\nThe reasons are simple:<br \/>\n1) My clock radio is not digital<br \/>\n2) My freeplay windup radio is not digital<br \/>\n3) My bathroom radio&#8217;s not digital<br \/>\n4) My kitchen radio is not digital (I have a DAB &#8220;kitchen&#8221; radio &#8211; I just choose not to put it in the kitchen)<br \/>\nSure, if I listen on my pocket DAB radio, I hear it digitally, and if I listen via TV I do. But you know what? Five Live doesn&#8217;t gain a great deal by being in digital. I appreciate Five Live Sports Extra giving me additional commentary choices, but that&#8217;s really it for a speech and phone-in station.<br \/>\nOtherwise I just use the most convenient audio available to me. Over time, that&#8217;s likely to be digital. But not right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio Five Live is running a campaign to persuade us to go digital at the moment. It&#8217;s awful and condescending. Have a listen yourself. powered by ODEO I listen to a lot of Five Live outside work, and I&#8217;m certainly in the digital community with DAB, broadband, Freeview and Sky as ways of listening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}