"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
Mr DAB refuses to acknowledge that the current system was finalized
long before any of his alternatives.


AAC was standardised in 1997, DAB was properly launched in the UK in
2002.

Doubt anyone cares about when you think DAB was 'properly' launched.


At the risk of actually siding with Steve, I do think that the DAB spec was
finalised too early. It was many years afterwards that receivers cheap
enough for ordinary people to buy became available, during those years there
was opportunity to have updated the audio codec at least.

Unlike digital TV, DAB has been, and continues to be, a hard sell. By and
large people don't want DAB sets and are not buying them in sufficient
numbers to allow analogue to be switched-off in anything remotely
approaching the timetable that Ofcom have in mind. Frankly I can see no good
reason to switch analogue off at all, it's hardly going to save much
spectrum.

David.