[cma-l] DAB Switchover

[Alan Coote]

Clive, 
A broadcasting platform is fundamentally different from a data network used
in mobile coms, Wifi etc. Using RF data networks for real time broadcasting
is a hugely inefficient use bandwidth and spectrum.

My point of highlighting DRM and DRM+ is that they can co-exist in the same
band alongside their analogue counterpart services, there is no need for DAB
multiplex gatekeepers and it is a wholly more appropriate system for ALL UK
radio stations.

Alan

    

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Clive Glover
Sent: 14 September 2010 11:29 AM
To: CMA-L
Subject: Re: [cma-l] DAB Switchover

Grant has absolutely hit the nail into the coffin (to mix metaphors a bit!).

DAB is a "dead man walking" and it would perhaps be one of the better "cuts"
to come out of the spending reviews. If the BBC were "reluctantly" to give
it up as a contribution to "cuts" then the commercial sector would follow in
days. The "digital platforms" of choice are online streaming plus satellite,
cable and FreeView FTA TV. WiFi to vehicles is already being trialled and
will be widespread within a few years (it is aimed at improved traffic
information but once you have it you can listen to radio online, check your
emails - hands free of course! and so on...)

But there is  a lesson here for us all. Adopting a new technology before it
has widespread public acceptance is not a good idea. I can remember not just
BetaMax, but X400 email (developed by the BT's and other telecoms
companies), D-MAC digital television (developed by ITV) and so on. DRM and
DRM+ may look to be the future now but could equally be dead ends.

Clive Glover


On 14 Sep 2010, at 01:40, Alan Coote wrote:

> An excellent blog by Grant. 
> 
> As I have said before on this forum and others, after so many years of 
> flocking this Betamax of a radio systems, please will someone with 
> enough courage kill it off.
> 
> It's ridiculous that this  country, a leader in broadcasting and 
> technology, can't swallow it's pride and commit to the evidently 
> technically superior DRM & DRM+.
> 
> With such a ubiquitous platform there will not be a broadcaster in the 
> country without a route to digital and therefore, broadcasters, 
> manufactures and consumers will all benefit.
> 
> Alan
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Richard 
> Hilton
> Sent: 13 September 2010 5:44 PM
> To: CMA-L
> Subject: [cma-l] DAB Switchover
> 
> At times Paul Goddard can come across like a lone Don Quixote figure 
> tilting at the DAB windmill (and I mean that in the nicest way 
> possible!).  The DAB lobby tend not to engage with him, perhaps hoping 
> that by ignoring him everyone else will as well. However, it is worth 
> noting that his writing is nearly always backed up with detailed technical
analysis.
> 
> His latest blog, guaranteed to irritate the DAB lobby, starts as 
> follows:-
> 
> 'I am often asked why I believe that digital radio switchover will 
> never happen in the UK. My answer is always this - the available 
> statistics and data on consumer take-up of DAB radio fail to 
> demonstrate that it will grow sufficiently to become the mass medium 
> for radio broadcasting. I can see nothing in more than a decade of 
> figures to offer an inkling that DAB radio will ever become anything more
than a minority interest, compared to FM/AM'
> 
> I'll leave you to read the rest at :-
> 
> http://grantgoddardradioblog.blogspot.com/
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> Regards
> 
> 
> Richard
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