[comradio-l] Fwd: Vidéo SNRL and DRM press release: Positive feedback from the EBU/DRM conference

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VIDEO [english] sur l'expérimentation DRM+ Paris présentée à l'EBU à
Genève sur le site http://www.snrl.org en page d'accueil

Positive feedback from the EBU/DRM conference

DRM digital radio technology received great interest from the 80
delegates present at the DRM Conference organised by the European
Broadcasting Union in Geneva. The conference, held on 26th November
2009, was attended by participants from 25 countries (mainly from
Europe but also from as far afield as Chile and Australia) who
represented all broadcasting stakeholders including regulators,
broadcasters, equipment and chipset manufacturers.

The event brought into focus the recent developments in the DRM
technology - the standardisation of DRM+ and the publication of DRM
Receiver Profiles. This conference highlighted the market potential of
the DRM system and evaluated the results from its tests from various
locations worldwide. It also allowed a healthy discussion on different
business cases and real achievements in getting DRM receivers on the
market.

Supported with excellent organisation by the EBU, the Consortium was
able to highlight the achievements and challenges of the DRM
technology and present its potential as the global solution for
conversion of radio from analogue to digital. DRM Chairperson,
Ruxandra Obreja, expressed her satisfaction at the event by saying: "I
am delighted that this was an interactive event able to demonstrate
the great potential and benefits of DRM. From the feedback received
the interesting presentations and discussions have impressed the
participants, many of whom want to know more and attend similar events
dedicated to the DRM
technology."

There were live demonstrations of the technology at the Conference
venue. The event also provided a great opportunity for networking and
exchanging views on digital radio developments in different parts of
the world. To see and hear the presentations made on that day, please
visit the EBU website:

http://tech.ebu.ch/events/ebu_drm09

The DRM members can access also to all the presentations and view more
pictures of the event on the FTP server under /presentations/ EBU-DRM
conference.

*About DRM*
Digital Radio MondialeTM (DRM) is the universal, openly standardised
digital broadcasting system for all broadcasting frequencies up to
174MHz, including LW, MW, SW, band I and II (FM band). DRM provides
digital sound quality and the ease-of-use that comes from digital
radio, combined with a wealth of enhanced features: Surround Sound,
Journaline text information, Slideshow, EPG, and data services.DRM on
short, medium and long wave for broadcasting bands up to 30 MHz
(called 'DRM30') provides large coverage areas and low power
consumption. The enhancement of the DRM standard for broadcast
frequencies above 30 MHz ('DRM+') uses the same audio coding, data
services, multiplexing and signaling schemes as DRM30 but introduces
an additional transmission mode optimized for those bands.

For more information and DRM updates please visit http://www.drm.org/
or subscribe to DRM news by writing to
pressoffice at drm.org

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