Product Description

Highway is a unique, easy to fit in-car DAB digital radio that also enables you to listen to your iPod/MP3 player. Powered from the in-car power socket and easily attached to your windscreen with a removable flexible mount (just like sat nav) Highway receives DAB stations and transmits them to your car radio on a free FM frequency. Simply tune your car radio to the FM frequency shown on Highway?s display to listen to DAB or your iPod/MP3 player. DAB digital radio brings you more stations including BBC 7, BBC Five Live Sports Extra, Planet Rock and theJazz. National AM stations such as talkSPORT, Virgin and BBC Five Live are also broadcast in crisp, clear digital-quality DAB. Highway is packed with great, easy-to-use features such as ReVu? to pause and skip back through live DAB radio, quickSCAN to find free FM transmission frequencies, and 4 FM transmission presets (synchronize these with your car radio?s FM presets to make avoiding interference a breeze). You can even take Highway from the car when your journey?s over and carry on listening using headphones*. * Headphones not included. Whether you want to enjoy the digital stations in-car that you do at home, listen to your iPod/MP3 player on the move, or just discover DAB, Highway brings a lot more entertainment to your journey.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Pure
• Model: VL-60905
• Released on: 2008-01-14

Features

• DAB AND FM RADIO
• CLOCK
• BLACK AND GREY
• 1 X HEAPHONES SOCKETS

What Hi-Fi
What Hi-Fi 5-Star Review Award - April 2008

Manufacturer's Description
Highway is a unique, easy to fit in-car DAB digital radio that also enables you to listen to your iPod/MP3 player.

Powered from the in-car power socket and easily attached to your windscreen with a removable flexible mount (just like sat nav). Highway receives DAB stations and transmits them to your car radio on a free FM frequency. Simply tune your car radio to the FM frequency shown on Highway's display to listen to DAB or your iPod/MP3 player.

DAB digital radio brings you more stations including BBC 7, BBC Five Live Sports Extra, Planet Rock and theJazz. National AM stations such as talkSPORT, Virgin and BBC Five Live are also broadcast in clear digital-quality audio.

Highway is packed with great, easy-to-use features such as ReVu to pause and skip back through live DAB radio, quickSCAN to find free FM transmission frequencies, and 4 FM transmission presets (synchronize these with your car radio's FM presets to make avoiding interference a breeze). You can even take Highway from the car when your journey's over and carry on listening using headphones*.

Whether you want to enjoy the digital stations in-car that you do at home, listen to your iPod/MP3 player on the move, or just discover DAB, Highway brings a lot more entertainment to your journey.

* Headphones not included.

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Customer Reviews

The best bit of technology I've bought in years
I bought this little gadget in July this year for my birthday in August (prezzie from daughters) and having read the reviews thought I had a 50-50 chance of it being worthwhile. This is as much down to my own jaded cycnicism on new gadgets, such as my iPOD Classic which is barely audible due to some apparent but unlisted EU legislation on volume controls! Secondly getting decent DAB coverage in my house is also a major challenge with very sporadic pockets of average coverage and huge rafts of no coverage at all.

So I was delighted on a number of points in regard to this device. First, it was as easy to fit as they stated, taking around 5 minutes and being very easy to tuck away the aerial cable - Pure even supply some little sticky cable clips to help! Then the set up took less than 30 seconds. Simply press Quick-scan and tune to the displayed FM frequency and away you go. What's more I drive from Petersfield to Newbury daily on a very rural cross country route and the signal drops for about 30 seconds in a low lying village and that's it! I get decent broadcast even with one signal bar displayed and for a 47 mile journey no need to change the FM frequency. That in itself seems unusually good.

I agree about the single use aerial, but spent another £24.99 on a car kit to allow it to be used in both cars, with equally good results. Setting the presets is also a doodle, the manual being clear and written in plain easy to follow English.

All in all, very easy to install and use with , for me, astoundingly good results. Highly recommended gadget and hats off to Pure for continuing to produce gtreat DAB receivers. Planet Rock all the way. As another reviewer said...what are the other presets for :-)

Could've been so good....
I had been looking for a way to get DAB in my car for a while. I saw this on amazon, noted the warnings about reception in the reviews and went ahead. I wasn't too worried about reception because the portable DAB radio I have in the house has very good reception and the what-stations-can-my-postcode-receive websites all suggested my locality (I live in suburban Leeds) had strong coverage.

The unit proved very easy to setup - my car radio has an aux input so I didn't need to use the FM transmitter. I installed the aerial exactly as described in the manual. It found plenty of stations when sat on my drive.

However, the problems began when I started to move. The unit is unable to consistently and clearly receive the stations I'm interested in. The stations cut out frequently on my 20 minute commute to work and even more often if I venture further afield. Even a couple of the BBC stations, which, according to the unit, had consistently good signal strength and quality, had annoying clicks most of the time.

Buyers beware!

flimsy
hi i,m not a "ham"fisted person,but managed to break fixing bracket in minutes, brilliant!!! finding it difficult to detect a lot of stations but this may be my area(cleveland)? maybe if i buy some glue and drive around to detect more stations things may improve, time will tell???