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Re: DAB dying a slow death before it's even fully alive?

nobby — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:53:32 GMT

Its more likely that DRM will succeed as a digital standard than DAB.

Re: DAB dying a slow death before it's even fully alive?

Tod Daniel — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:03:17 GMT

I'm not going to knock DAB as I love listening to KISS 100, Jazz FM, Heart, Choice and Kerrang. You simply wouldn't find them on FM in most parts of the UK. At least it's better than hissy FM guys.

Not too sure if DAB will die as I've just ordered my third MINI Cooper and DAB is now standard in the MINI range with BMW fitting them as standard very soon. Heard DAB in a friend's BMW and the reception around LIverpool was absolutely superb!

Re: DAB dying a slow death before it's even fully alive?

soundproof — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:05:47 GMT

And it's not as if hindsight makes us see the truth. There were plentiful critics as it was launched, B&O being one of them - finally Struer let themselves get pressured into delivering units that were DAB-enabled, though they didn't believe in the format.

Today, you can get Wi-Fi enabled memory cards for your camera ... That's right, an SD-memory card with WiFi enclosed, and which sends the pictures you've taken straight to your computer. DAB was a troglodyte application of the digital possibilities, moored in the past. And while promising excellent audio, it didn't deliver, as the available band got split into way too small slices.

Old players trying to control the new media, which can't be controlled ...

The speed of evolution now is immense:

http://uk.eye.fi/products/connectx2

Re: DAB dying a slow death before it's even fully alive?

j0hnbarker — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:07:18 GMT

Let's hope so Dave!

It was an utterly pointless waste of taxpayers' cash to funnel shed-loads of money into propping up this project here in the UK, largely state-sponsored by the BBC. I personally can only hope that the 6 year freeze on the licence fee will divert the BBC's attention away from this project and back towards their core functions of making TV and radio programmes.

Just because it has the word 'digital' in it, doesn't make it better, as some people seemed convinced it was in the early part of the last decade! I know people in Sheffield who have tired of the appalling quality of the DAB signals here, and have seen more than a few DAB radios languishing on the shelves of local charity shops in the nicer parts of town :D

DAB dying a slow death before it's even fully alive?

davefarr — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:32:23 GMT

Possibly, according to this article in the Telegraph today:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8090803/Digital-radio-switchover-never-likely-as-listening-levels-fall-figures-show.html

My older B&O won't be becoming redundant then after all. Will all of the DAB equipment become redundant instead and what could this mean for B&O?

Dave.