First I tried Bermingham’s on burgh quay, they do cameras and such shops usually do digital voice records / DV cameras that need mics so I dropped in, No, that was it, blunt, no further help, one “No”. To be fair to Bermingham’s they have better sales staff than this & I have been using…
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radio
fishy radio – Euranet
the tuning dial on 2sec’s, the text is reversed but the camera is not inside the radio!. I love the fish.
PSPRadio from iLikeRadio
psp radio from ilikeradio.net download onto the PSP here
kids get no radio satisfaction
Is radio better for kids than TV? asks Zoe Williams in the Guardian. No surprise I love radio. But no matter how hard i try I can’t force my children to listen to radio. I scanned the band today 88-108 30+ stations 2 played music, the city is Dublin Ireland. very metro, how odd, 2…
Euranet: Pan European Radio
I am interested greatly in this project of the EU called Euranet. A Pan European multilingual radio service of the EU contributed to by 16 broadcasters in 13 countries in 10 languages rising to 23 by year 5. Due to launch April 2008 and online from July 1st it is set to broadcast on FM…
DAB on trial
On the eve of RTE shutting down a 500KW medium wave in favour of many many sites x 5-10KW DAB I thought I better record what DAB sounds like in my house, or down my street or inside the shops. Walking down the street was OK to bad – Shops not possible at all. This…
Anger as RTÉ digital kills the analogue star
Trackback [20.03.2008 first posted on silicon republic] A huge portion of Ireland’s emigrant population not to mention 600,000 listeners in the greater Belfast area will be disenfranchised when RTÉ switches off its analogue medium-wave services without making a clear, determined switch to digital. Despite last year’s broadcasting legislation allowing for licence money to be spent…
what does DRM sound like
So you are driving down the long mile road or the autobahn and you turn on the DRM radio in the car and tune to a station ~1000KM away in a different country, it sounds like this. video flash from drm.org
unpopular decisions v deciding to serve the unpopular
Hats off to RTÉ who see a future for MPEG4 on DTT. RTÉ don’t do visions they receive apparitions. There has been mention of MPEG4 in the tender docs for the 3 commercial mux. It would seem that RTÉ favour MPEG4 and the possibility of HD. This is a good thing and is forward looking.…