I agree with Ian the quality is poor on many pop stations, but is ok on the
classic music stations.
The best I have seen is BBC Radio 3 192Kbs then Classic FM at 160Kbs and the
worst was a pop commercial station at 64 Kbs, this is using a DAB tuner.

This should not be a problem in the long term if the price of DAB equipment is
kept high, as we all know the vast majority of people will not pay large amounts
of money for music equipment, why pay £100 for a radio when you can get one for
£10, and with only a small user base the commercial stations will not see a
benefit in paying for a DAB licence as well as FM / AM so in time will leave if
we are lucky.

whiteflyer




"Ian Bell" wrote in message
...
Francis Xavier Holden wrote:

There was a two page piece on Digital Radio in the Melbourne AGE Green
Guide last week promising all sorts of wonders.

I did notice a distinct lack of comment about anything that looked
like quality content.

I seem to recall that Digital radio has been less than a runaway
success in UK.

Anyone got any comments or info from UK.
..
F X Holden

Don't know about successful or not but there are too many stations for the
available bandwidth so the data rate is the lowest in Europe and hence the
quality is, in general, crap.

Ian

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:58:16 +0100, "Whiteflyer"
wrote:

I agree with Ian the quality is poor on many pop stations, but is ok on the
classic music stations.
The best I have seen is BBC Radio 3 192Kbs then Classic FM at 160Kbs and the
worst was a pop commercial station at 64 Kbs, this is using a DAB tuner.

This should not be a problem in the long term if the price of DAB equipment is
kept high, as we all know the vast majority of people will not pay large amounts
of money for music equipment, why pay £100 for a radio when you can get one for
£10, and with only a small user base the commercial stations will not see a
benefit in paying for a DAB licence as well as FM / AM so in time will leave if
we are lucky.

whiteflyer



If you want to know just how bad DAB can be, listen to Sunrise radio.
I guarantee you won't do it for long. It is on a multiplex run by
Capital radio, and I'm pretty sure they've *never* listened to it.

d

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