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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>As we've come to expect - Alex has injected a level of common sense and sanity.<br>Even the smallest and simplest FM stations have the capacity from a simple cheap RDS encoder to transmit data in their PS, PI, PT and MS codes to identify their programming and stance to receivers - but most either can't or don't use that information without a deal of input from the listener.<br>So he's right - there's only a lack of application by lethargic and uninspired manufacturers to prevent station selection now by name and also by four other sorting criteria,.<br><div>At the risk of being branded an eternal Luddite, I'll restate my mantra that in the UK we have probably the best terrestrial digital radio infrastructure anywhere with lots of potential spectrum available for use.<br>We bravely jumped very early and adopted Eureka 147, branded as "DAB" - which is now accepted as archaic and expandable.<br>No-one else anywhere appears to be prepared to commit to a world-wide system in which manufacturers can have total confidence.<br>Are we not now in a position where we can make the next bold jump to convert our comprehensive but tired DTR system to a new format - and again show the world the way?<br><br><div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><b>Ian Hickling</b><br></font></div><font style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:12pt;" size="3"><font style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Partner</font></font><br><br><a href="http://www.transplanuk.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);"><img alt="" src="https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/2SkDsnIzSZgRbNnNKBSiwxiFhFQWRGV55mTjVL23fulnJpstZmYxeKrrYefY4qxiSgkMrAETld64XINLXCsujE_zI5gAsQyWeCWvHixcrNYtar3Sij4YlVBgN2NSQ-n2DsgZvrnpWZlfwCQ=s0-d-e1-ft#http://www.transplanuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/transplan_UK_weblogo_190x60.png"></a><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;"><i><font size="3">Office: 01635 578435 (7am-11pm UK time)</font></i></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;"><i><font size="3">Carphone: 07530 980115 (only responds when driving)</font></i></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;"><i><font size="3">6 Horn Street, Compton, NEWBURY, RG20 6QS</font></i></div></div><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: tlr@gairloch.co.uk<br>To: cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk<br>Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 18:34:12 +0100<br>Subject: Re: [cma-l] by the way - Eddie on DAB vs FM<br><br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Calibri">Exactly Glyn, but that isn't the situation
unfortunately.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Calibri">When the '50% of all listening digital' and the
DAB 'tick mark' criteria were being consulted on, I submitted that it should
also be a requirement that all radios tune by default using the names of
available stations, regardless of whether they were on FM or DAB, but this has
not been done, so there will an increasingly tilted playing field.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Calibri">As you know, there is no reason any FM radio
shouldn't tune by name just like DAB (using RDS to get the names). My old car
radio does this by default as well as showing current show titles.
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<div><font size="2" face="Calibri">There's also no technical reason, and only a tiny
financial one, why pause/rewind/programme info, even 'playing now',
shouldn't be supported on FM reception just as well as on DAB. I have a 12 year
old pocket MP3 player with FM radio that offers record/pause/rewind on FM and
the whole thing cost only $10 even then.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Calibri">Given the extra production costs would be tiny
compared with the larger profit margins on DAB sets compared to commodity
FM sets, an obvious reason for why DAB set manufacturers don't generally do
these things is that it would take some of the shine of the supposed benefits of
DAB! The government should have mandated it if it was serious about a level
playing field for FM and DAB.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Calibri">Alex</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Eddie, In a true multi-platform future that James
envisages, the radios will tune independently of channel - ie: in theory all
DAB and FM (and possibly internet) stations in one list. The listener
should not need to know about the underlying technology delivering the
services.
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<div>Big "IF" - IF the manufacturers implement multi-platform properly.</div>
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<div>Glyn</div>
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