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by cpach 2172 days ago
How do you mean? If I tune in to the FM band then it’s analog, no?
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no. you tune it to your regular fm band on your radio. if you have a digital receiver, which is almost any car in the last decade+, it'll do digital. you won't even know it.

in fact, most of these people here defending analog have been using digital for years. this conversation however is not about fm. the switch to digital there was a long time ago. it's about am, whose ship is sailing now.

You are talking about HD Radio, which is quite different from DAB/DAB+ used in Europe.
No, FM has not widely switched over to digital yet in the UK and Europe in general. Which is exactly the topic under discussion in the article...