"Serge Auckland" wrote in message

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"Serge Auckland" wrote in message


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Internet radio on a mobile 'phone will be all about portability
and
choice of channels, audio quality won't be an issue, so streaming
at
32kbps or less is quite likely.


There are over 8,000 Internet radio streams on shoutcast.com using
128
kbps or higher, and a third of all UK commercial radio stations are
using
128 kbps. Don't see why you think 32 kbps will be common for
Internet
radio streams, to be honest.



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Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

The adoption of DAB was the most incompetent technical
decision ever made in the history of UK broadcasting:
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/da...ion_of_dab.htm

Perhaps it won't but what I'm saying is that mobile broadband
internet
radio will become more popular than portable radio receivers,
whether AM,
FM or DAB.


60% of all radio listening takes place at home though, and there's no
point in listening to radio via mobile broadband when you're at home
(assuming there's a fixed-line broadband connection).


If adequate quality for the purpose is available at only
32kbps, then bandwidth is no bar to this developing.


32 kbps isn't adequate, though.




--
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

The adoption of DAB was the most incompetent technical
decision ever made in the history of UK broadcasting:
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/da...ion_of_dab.htm