The world’s first digital radio which lets users pause, rewind and record went on display in Sydney recently as part of a showcase of radios set to revolutionise radio listening.
The Bug, by PURE Digital, looks strikingly different and includes advanced features which allow listeners to pause live radio and then restart the program from where they left off. It also allows program rewinding by 5-12 minutes. Aditionally, the Bug can convert a program to MP3 format using a PC, enabling playback on a users portable MP3 player.
The PURE Bug has a high-resolution display screen showing scrolling text such as artist, song titles, news, sports results and other text, and allows for a timer to be set to record programs to an SD card for larger storage.
The Bug is one of a range of new receivers on show at the Domayne store in Sydney’s Alexandria for the next three months.
“The leap in sound quality and features from AM/FM analogue radio to digital radio is stunning – it’s comparable to the change when TV went from black and white to colour,” said Joan Warner, chief executive of peak industry body Commercial Radio Australia.
2UE talkback presenter John Laws officially opened the digital radio centre today. “Radio has changed enormously over the 50 years I’ve been broadcasting, and digital technology is arguably the biggest change but also the most critical to ensuring that the industry is able to remain innovative over the next 50 years,”Laws said.
With digital radios sales havinggrown by over 200 per cent in the UK in the past year, the Australian radio industry is excited by the release of the new digital radio receivers.
