 On 30 January 2008 , a report in the Daily Mail claimed that there were not enough DAB radios being sold to support the service for the future and that people were favouring their traditional analogue radios over DAB . It also reported that unless sales started to rise , DAB in the UK could follow the same fate as Betamax Video Cassettes did in the 1980s . In January 2009 , the Digital Radio Development Bureau announced that fewer DAB radio sets were sold in Christmas 2008 than in the previous year , although the group states that customer confidence in DAB remains high . 
