Hi,

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On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:07:44 +0000, tony sayer
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course, you may find it's easier to find a 'decent [FM] tuner' than a
decent DVB-T box, and especially one with a digital output.

Freeview is "clean" there is no doubt about that, but it does have that
metallic artificial digital sound to it that I find very irritating.
Course if the BBC was a pro outfit they'd be on satellite at 256 K/bits
or more but sadly their not. Other European broadcasters seem to be able
to do that!..

I think the whole DAB disaster could have been avoided if they'd
picked a solid technology, but they go for something 20 years old. Its
inexplicably wrongheaded....

Eureka 147 was recommended by the ITU for "immediate use" in 1994.
Needless to say, it wasn't twenty years old then. At the time that the
MPEG 1 audio specs were ratified, it was pushing technology in
terms of what could be done in hardware in 'real time'. Plus, I'm not
aware of any 'better' technologies that were available at the time. If
there were any, I'd like to hear about them.

The technology is now looking rather antiquated, however, and bureaucracy
has ensured that we've ended up with a system that fails in one of it's
stated claims - "DAB fully complies with the tough requirements of the
future". The implementation of DAB we have in the UK fails on this
claim, IMO.

Regards,

Glenn.