"BBC is biased towards DAB" wrote in message
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"David Looser" wrote in message

"BBC is biased towards DAB" wrote in message
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I can't say I've listened to every single listen again programme
available,

You couldn't, unless you are capable of listening to many programmes at
the same time 24 hours a day.


Gosh, how do you come out with such clever comebacks?

Well don't say daft things about not having heard every single listen again
programme then!


but yes, the quality of the listen again programmes I've listened to
recently have been significantly better quality than on DAB.


Well don't listen to DAB then.


That's missing the point though, because the rest of the general public
are being forcefully pushed towards DAB

Are they?, can't say I've noticed.

even though for millions of people the Internet or even digital TV woudl
be a better platform for what they want.

Which is probably why the BBC offers those as well.

Also, because the BBC is so biased towards DAB and DAB offers crap quality
it's trying to keep the quality down on other platforms. Basically,
everything revolves around DAB. If they provided the best quality they
could on other platforms and acknowledged taht there are problems with
DAB's audio quality then I wouldn't mind.

Gosh, this is turning into a real conspiracy theory!


Analogue radio will be with us for the
forseeable future, and most radio stations are now available as an
internet stream. So why get so excercised over DAB?


See above.


So, what are you listening to?

Yesterday's "Any Questions". Curiously I often notice the distortion is
most noticable on the voices of the continuity announcers.


Yes, I have actually heard R4's listen again streams are screwed up at the
moment.

Have you?, or did you just make that bit up?

That's a temporary problem though, not an inherent problem.

Nonesense! the quality today is just the same as it's been for months (which
is rather better than it was before).

R4's listen again streams use 128 kbps MP3, whereas R4 on DAB uses 128
kbps MP2. And MP3 is a far better codec to use at 128 kbps than MP2 is,
that's for sure.

To be fair, speech on DAB isn't the main problem. The main problem is
music.

BTW, the BBC's live and listen again streams should be moving over to
using AAC/AAC+ over the next week or two (if you're not aware, AAC/AAC+ is
an excellent codec). And the bit rates should increase over time, because
Internet bandwidth costs are plummetting.

I'm glad to hear it.

Stick to DAB if you like, but you'd be sticking with the lowest quality
digital platform.

You mistake. I am not "sticking with DAB", I rarely listen to it.

David.