[opendtv] Re: Digital radios outstrip analogue

  • From: jeroen.stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:53:53 +0100

Hello, 

Dermot Nolan wrote: 
>> And, of course, DVB-H is probably better suited for battery operated 
>> digital radios...

Donald Koeleman replied: 
> And if you would be even more of a heretic, it wouldn't be DVB-H, 
> but one of the Asian DMB technologies...

Do you think of Dermot as a heretic ?  ;-) 

I think that the answer is: neither. 
The real replacement for DAB would be DRM (Digital Radio 
Mondiale, not Digital Rights Management):  http://www.drm.org/ 

Dermot will love this quote: 
"The robustness of the DRM signal can be chosen to match different 
propagation conditions."

DRM was designed to replace AM radio, especially the long-
distance short-wave radio, where fading due to multipath 
reception is an annoying problem. One former colleague, who 
used to work on DAB, has now moved to another company to 
work on DRM. Who knows, this may finally be the radio that 
works well everywhere. 

I like radio, it has better pictures... 

Best regards, 
-- Jeroen 

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