- Oct 14, 1999
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Digital radio is absolute bullshit right now, a simple little scrolling text message as a song plays. The information rarely wraps the display right on my Trailblazer's radio screen and if I catch the end of a song it never completes the message it starts to display. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. There is absolutely no reason the digital age cannot exist in the radio set. I have a few ideas for all those busy body worthless executive radio types that are making money on the old analog radio signal.
1. Give me the power to RECORD the program like TiVO; catch a song on the music stations or the program on talk radio. I should be able to set a schedule that records the programs on talk radio when I miss them because I had to pull over to take a dump at the gas station. It sucks to catch bits and pieces of these talk shows. It sucks to only hear part of them because of a distraction. Give me the FF and RW options to listen to the programs! Damn you wannabe NASCAR driver racing through traffic in your piece of crap rice grinder sporting that whale tail and a glass pack muffler, I missed that one little blip on the radio because of you, you piece of... get a muffler. And give me a PAUSE button when I have to answer a phone call. I am not always in gear when I'm in the car so don't tell me its too much of a distraction for me and the rest of the listeners.
2. Come up with a simple Picture Billboard with the music artist, album cover, and where to buy the damn thing. RIAA can kiss my ass when the only place I can discover the names of these new artists is on YouTube or Limewire. I don't care if 50% of the time the billboard is showing advertisements from the radio sponsors, give me the information on the programming. It is 2008 and you still don't tell me the names of artists and albums 90% of the time. I have to go to the internet and read the playlists then download the video on YouTube. By that time why should I waste my time paying for it? Its on YouTube with damn near radio quality already. And I don't just want these pictures to display once and done, I want the radio to remember the last 1000 pictures that were broadcast so when I get to my destination I can write them down for future reference. Hell, I might even want to store good Billboards. Give me the power!
3. You tell me, why should I pay your bullshit CD tax when you don't even give me a decent recording in the year 2008. You still are recording CD's like its 1979. Move to DVD already, one that plays in my car for God's sake, and pump up the dynamic acoustical range on that new shit. Hell, remix the old music and earn your money you lazy ass*****. And while you are at it, get the radio stations to play this high fidelity music instead of the current CD quality crap. Hell, half the time I hear the music on the radio it sounds like they are playing it off YouTube and not even off the CD. There is no reason the sound quality over the radio in 2008 sucks so bad other than the fact the sources of the radio's music are really just simply that bad.
4. Give me the option to get weather radar, local and regional forecasts, and traffic reports over the Billboard. Civil defense authorities need to have the ability to interrupt the Billboard, too. And make it so those Amber alerts come across, too. I don't understand why we have to rely on the current pile of crap emergency broadcast system. Do it for Amber.
5. Build all the above options in a jambox radio.
Its freaking 2008, folks. Let's get some serious DIGITAL freaking RADIO.
1. Give me the power to RECORD the program like TiVO; catch a song on the music stations or the program on talk radio. I should be able to set a schedule that records the programs on talk radio when I miss them because I had to pull over to take a dump at the gas station. It sucks to catch bits and pieces of these talk shows. It sucks to only hear part of them because of a distraction. Give me the FF and RW options to listen to the programs! Damn you wannabe NASCAR driver racing through traffic in your piece of crap rice grinder sporting that whale tail and a glass pack muffler, I missed that one little blip on the radio because of you, you piece of... get a muffler. And give me a PAUSE button when I have to answer a phone call. I am not always in gear when I'm in the car so don't tell me its too much of a distraction for me and the rest of the listeners.
2. Come up with a simple Picture Billboard with the music artist, album cover, and where to buy the damn thing. RIAA can kiss my ass when the only place I can discover the names of these new artists is on YouTube or Limewire. I don't care if 50% of the time the billboard is showing advertisements from the radio sponsors, give me the information on the programming. It is 2008 and you still don't tell me the names of artists and albums 90% of the time. I have to go to the internet and read the playlists then download the video on YouTube. By that time why should I waste my time paying for it? Its on YouTube with damn near radio quality already. And I don't just want these pictures to display once and done, I want the radio to remember the last 1000 pictures that were broadcast so when I get to my destination I can write them down for future reference. Hell, I might even want to store good Billboards. Give me the power!
3. You tell me, why should I pay your bullshit CD tax when you don't even give me a decent recording in the year 2008. You still are recording CD's like its 1979. Move to DVD already, one that plays in my car for God's sake, and pump up the dynamic acoustical range on that new shit. Hell, remix the old music and earn your money you lazy ass*****. And while you are at it, get the radio stations to play this high fidelity music instead of the current CD quality crap. Hell, half the time I hear the music on the radio it sounds like they are playing it off YouTube and not even off the CD. There is no reason the sound quality over the radio in 2008 sucks so bad other than the fact the sources of the radio's music are really just simply that bad.
4. Give me the option to get weather radar, local and regional forecasts, and traffic reports over the Billboard. Civil defense authorities need to have the ability to interrupt the Billboard, too. And make it so those Amber alerts come across, too. I don't understand why we have to rely on the current pile of crap emergency broadcast system. Do it for Amber.
5. Build all the above options in a jambox radio.
Its freaking 2008, folks. Let's get some serious DIGITAL freaking RADIO.
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