"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:kn3fu21e5fhkiqaod7jf14fm5um57817lm@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:20:46 -0500, Doug Warner
> <dwarner22@ccharter.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Tony Rickard <tony.rickardno@spam.blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>The Symphony option is cheaper and frees up room in the
>>>glovebox. Is
>>>there any downside to going for the Symphony? I can't see why
>>>the
>>>glovebox autochanger would be an option.
>>>
>>
>>I had a Symphony radio in a loaner for a few days, and found
>>two
>>incredibly annoying things about it, which may be configurable.
>>
>>1. The often-changing FM radio text display showed at the top
>>of the
>>cluster display, constantly, just inside my peripheral vision,.
>>Very
>>distracting, and unnecessary.
>>
>>2. When manually tuning, the instant you stop turning the ****,
>>the
>>frequency display on the radio is replaced by text that says
>>"Rock" ,
>>"classical", or whatever category of stuff the station
>>transmits. As
>>a result, it's nearly impossible to see what direction you're
>>tuning,
>>and whether you're getting close or not, or what station it;'s
>>tuned
>>to.
>>
>>If these "features" can't be disabled, I'd never consider the
>>Symphony
>>radio.
>>
>>(I have the NAV system in my car.. Nice radio & MP3 player,
>>lousy GPS
>>display.)
>
> Some folks have brains that are simply single-threaded
>
> To disable the Symphony's Radio Data System that has proven to
> be oh so
> distracting to you, just press the RDS button...
>
> /daytripper
> '00 s4 6spd - doesn't suffer any problems with RDS on

Now, now, daytripper LOL

I'm sure the centre display in the instrument cluster can also be
switched off completely too - but maybe only if you have DIS.

Rgds, Sean