Is the act of tuning a radio, or tuning anything, becoming weird?

Tuning has largely given way to demultiplexing the right bits from a digital data stream, a.k.a. "changing channels". We still call it tuning but the frequency of the signal isn't consistently changing.

I guess we'll still call it "tuning" when the last analog radio signal leaves the airwaves. Heck, we'll still probably talk about tuning up and down the dial.

On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 12:08:13 PM UTC-8, Ross Archer wrote:
Is the act of tuning a radio, or tuning anything, becoming weird?

Tuning has largely given way to demultiplexing the right bits from a digital data stream, a.k.a. "changing channels". We still call it tuning but the frequency of the signal isn't consistently changing.

I guess we'll still call it "tuning" when the last analog radio signal leaves the airwaves. Heck, we'll still probably talk about tuning up and down the dial.

Just to clarify, I don't think radio, especially least FM radio, is going anywhere soon. It meets a particular need almost perfectly.
But it might eventually go digital...