Ha, don't get me started about digital radio.
In the Netherlands they started testing with DAB a couple of years (decade?) ago. Supposedly the best thing since sliced bread. Me, being a gadget freak, I bought a very nice and rather expensive VitaAudio DAB radio. On which I was able to receive 4 digital stations due to a lousy reception. Living in the wrong street it seemed.
Two years later I move out of Amsterdam to a spot 50k north. No DAB service at all. Huh? Turns out that this nice new digital radio signal cannot be received everywhere. This in a country the size of Los Angeles, but then flat. Another 2 years later they manage to install a transmitter that I am able to receive. Hooray. Only, in the meantime they thought it smart to exchange DAB for DAB+. I now can tune in to the stations but due to a different encoding of the audio I only get silence on my non-upgradable VitaAudio radio. Really clean, digital HiFi silence.
They call it progress. I don't know. I do know that I own a 35 year old Quad FM4 tuner that receives FM as well as it did its first days in 1982. I vouched to never EVER put money in a digital radio again. If they want me to listen to DAB+ they issue me the receiver. Up until it is switched off I will continue to listen to FM. Then I'll play my own records. Or hum to myself if need be.
Meanwhile, if anybody is interested in a very nice looking, hardly used white VitaAudio R1 DABnonplus radio let me know.