[opendtv] Re: Digital radios outstrip analogue

Dermot, you haven't been looking hard. I've got a Roberts DAB radio that
runs on batteries. Admittedly big ones, but it works away from the mains.

Joe Public doesn't really give a hoot about bit-rate, even assuming he were
to understand the term. DAB radios are now selling because they're cheap
enough to count as an impulse buy.

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Subject: [opendtv] Re: Digital radios outstrip analogue


> Hi Jeroen,
>
> I agree but there a) people who don't like the current bit rate at which =
> the services are run (between 128 and 192kb/s) b) although you see lots o=
> f DAB portables you never see a battery operated DAB radio c) although lo=
> ts of people do have excellent indoor antenna reception on a telescopic r=
> od, they generally reckon the current low power VHF Band III signals shou=
> ld be up to 9dB higher. Set against that my analogue FM is crap and the D=
> AB versions of the same stations are flawless: domestic harmony in the mo=
> rnings. d) Its very clear why it is a success: same business model as Fre=
> eview. New digital only stations, simulcast of existing services, no subs=
> cription and under =A399.
> Heretically if you were starting digital radio today you would NOT use Eu=
> reka 147: you would and some countries are planning to, use DVB-H as its =
> 6.8 times more efficient than DAB (spectrum occupancy+audio coding) and t=
> here will be scale economies from simultaneous deployment of DVB-H in cel=
> lular systems. Of course it too uses that notorious but highly industrial=
> ised and effective multicarrier system!!
> And, of course, DVB-H is probably better suited for battery operated digi=
> tal radios...
> Kind Regards,
>
> Dermot Nolan
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> RE: [opendtv] Digital radios outstrip analogue
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> Hi, =
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> See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4302459.stm
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> "Sales of digital radios have outstripped the demand for traditional sets=
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> for the first time"
> "In total more radios are currently being sold in Dixons than in 1985." =
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> "A century after Marconi's invention, the loud and clear message is that =
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> radio is still a popular format. =
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> Shows you what a multi carrier transmission system can do...  ;-) =
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> Greetings, =
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