"David Looser" wrote in message
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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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So, after asking a simple question in the tv group, I thought i'd
ask here, why did we go dab, and what of DRM and HD Radio, any
chance of these coming to us?

I thought "DRM" stood for "Digital Rights Management". What has that
to do with radio? And I've never heard of "HD" radio, the term is
essentially meaningless, it sounds like someone trying to jump on
the HDTV bandwagon.

Why did we go DAB? Well "DAB" simply stands for "Digital Audio
Broadcasting" so the term applies to *any* form of digital "radio".
Why did we go for the system we have? At the time it was adopted it
was felt to be a good compromise between quality and cost that's
why.


Rubbish. The engineers thought the broadcasters would use the high bit
rate levels needed to provide high audio quality, but they completely
ignore the cost aspects, because DAB is extraordinarily expensive to
transmit, which is one of the main reasons why such low bit rates are
used in the UK.


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"It is the sheer volume of online audio content available via
internet-connected devices which terrifies the UK radio industry. I
believe that broadband-delivered radio will explode in the years to
come, offering very local, unregulated content, as well as opening a
window to the radio stations of the world." - from the Myers Report