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<div dir="ltr"><div>One of our overseas correspondents here has drawn my attention to the situation in Denmark:</div><a href="http://digitalradioinsider.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://digitalradioinsider.blogspot.co.uk/</a><div>I outlined my view to him as follows:</div><div><div style="line-height: 22.7199993133545px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>Most of our work is in facilitating small-scale FM stations - but that's not why I appear to be so carping about DAB. </i></div><div style="line-height: 22.7199993133545px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>Firstly the Media and to a great extent the Industry seem to use the term "DAB" to mean all possible formats of DTR - Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting - whereas it's just one - and an arcane and inflexible one at that.</i></div><div style="line-height: 22.7199993133545px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>Also there seems to be a headlong lemming-like rush to "something digital" when Band II VHF/FM is perfectly workable and acceptable for most domestic broadcasting and is in world-wide use.</i></div><div style="line-height: 22.7199993133545px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>Band III and Ku digital broadcasting is effectively not far beyond the trial stage as there is no world-wide agreement either with broadcasters or manufacturers.</i></div><div style="line-height: 22.7199993133545px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>The UK and certain other countries chose to put in place the first commercially-possible system and have found that it isn't future-proof.</i></div><div style="line-height: 22.7199993133545px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>I love the idea of what digital broadcast radio can do - but pushing it in the DAB format alone as the killer of FM is unworkable and idiotic.</i></div></div><div style="line-height: 22.7199993133545px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i><br></i></div><div style="line-height: 22.7199993133545px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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