“Gadgets such as the iTrip, which plug into MP3 players and connect them wirelessly to radios, are set to become legal in the UK. They are already popular in some parts of the world, but using them is illegal in the UK and Europe,” Louise Barnett reports for The Independent.
Barnett reports, “Ofcom, the communications regulator, put forward plans yesterday to legalise the use of ‘low power FM transmitters.’ It will consult on the issue until September, after which the devices are expected to become legal. Owners would not require a licence. Their use is currently banned because of the potential to cause interference to broadcast services.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Gandalf” for the heads up.]
Interfering with broadcast services is the best part!!
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if ya cant police something, legalize it! lol
iTrip sucks @ss. Lousy reception and even lousier fidelity. I ended up buying a different stereo, just so I could get something with a mini-phone plug aux jack on the front. Now everything’s just peachy!
Would you like some turkish delight?
i hear the roadtrip is the way to go
::shrugs::
mdn word ‘NEXT’
From personal experience, iTrip works only in rural areas where there’s plenty of empty FM bandwidth to stick the signal in. If you’re anywhere near a city, iTrip’s wimpy signal will be messed up by some station a few hundred kHz up or down.
(Thankfully, my new car has an AUX jack.)
The funny thing is that in city areas in the UK iTrips and the like won’t work due to fact that every spare FM channel that aint BBC or ILR is taken up by pirate Drum and Bass stations. Ofcom seem to do bugger all about these so why worry about a 10mW FM transmitter?
Easy now, hold it down on the 1’s and 2’s.
DJ TimD.