[cma-l] Go Digital: full text of speech by Ed Vaizey

[Mike Wright]

The only place I use a DAB radio is in  the Kitchen, this is the only place it will work. I also have 5 FM radios in cars and other rooms.
I bought a DAB radio for the car, and what a piece of dysfunctional technology. It lasted about a month before going back to FM just did not work!
I can not see car manufacturers moving to DAB any time soon, they have only just stopped fitting cassettes for the lovely c90s that they chewed up.


Mike Wright.  MSc;  BEng(hons);  FHEA; MIET; MAES
Creative Media Technology
Principal Lecturer in Audio Technology
Glyndwr University
Mold Road
Wrexham
m.wright at glyndwr.ac.uk<mailto:m.wright at glyndwr.ac.uk>




On 17 Dec 2013, at 23:04, tlr at gairloch.co.uk<mailto:tlr at gairloch.co.uk> wrote:

Yes, and of the 45% who do have a DAB radio in the house, I wonder how many FM radios they also have, not just as conventional sets around the house, but in hi-fis, alarm clocks, phones, cars, even showers!

It's quite interesting/entertaining to see the spin put on DAB at its launch around 20 years ago:

  *   DAB Promotion Video 1994 (1)<http://nnis.se/dokument/DAB/DAB_The_New_Age_Of_Radio_PART1.wmv>
  *   DAB Promotion Video 1994 (2)<http://nnis.se/dokument/DAB/DAB_The_New_Age_Of_Radio_PART2.wmv>

Alex
On 17 December 2013 at 16:21 Richard Hilton <Richard.Hilton at bitc.org.uk<mailto:Richard.Hilton at bitc.org.uk>> wrote:

Let’s compare some statistics from this speech:-

‘The BBC’s national DAB network now reaches 94% of homes.’
‘The commercial national DAB network (Digital One) coverage is now at 89%.’

All very positive until you read that:-

‘45% of people now live in homes with a DAB radio’

So 55% of people live in a home without a DAB radio. Anyone got any statistics about where people mostly listen to the radio?


Richard



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