[BC] Re: RDS numbers?

[SteveOrdinetz]

At 07:31 AM 1/20/2008, rj carpenter wrote:
>I have XM in the car and do not find the Channel / Title / Performer 
>display to be distracting. They are all displayed at the same time - 
>one glance is enough. [My XM radio has a scrolling mode, but I never use that.]
>
>RDS, which has long messages scrolling, **IS** likely to be 
>distracting. You have to watch it for a while to catch the info you 
>want. It would be far better if the RDS receiver had a multiline 
>display and the transmitted info was coded so it could be displayed 
>on the appropriate line.


I'm not sure which is worse, scrolling broken-up words or teensy text 
that you need reading glasses to decipher.