Re: DAB - The train without any driver

DAB is facing trouble wrote:
> DAB sounds worse than FM skrev:
>
>> As I say, he has to be from the DAB industry to go that far, IMO.
>
> Very typically the DAB industry: They always try to say that there is
> something REALLY wrong with those who critize the DAB system


I've been told that WorldDAB people slag my website off..... What can
you say about these people?...


> (In this
> fact they say to the listeners: Hey you are the biggest fool of all
> time, so we don't really need you). But in most cases, they can not
> argue so much about their system and even how they deal with new
> systems or other media so they can survive. Also typicall for the DAB
> supporters: Any other person that suggest another coding standard, a
> new system, even that MP3 players will be a problem, is unserious.


The Nicolas Croiset effect. ;-)


> In this case it is more the DAB supporters that are unserious, because
> they don't face the real true world.


Indeed.


> Like one of the DAB industry said: CHOICE is DAB. Well, MP3 players
> are even MORE CHOICE than DAB. And as a listener, I can control
> WHATEVER I want to hear on my MP3 player. So the MP3 player gives me
> POWER in front of both radio and the DAB industry. And as long as the
> DAB industry don't face this problem, it is only one way: The fast
> way to the top, and then the fall from the biggest tower in the world.
> Sometimes the DAB industry looks like .com crise in reverse. And they
> are very aware that "there is not any problem.".


Some of them seem to be facign up to the fact that their industry is
facing serious problems, such as from the iPod Generation that hate
adverts and inane DJs, the fact that more money is being spent on
advertising on the Internet than radio, and that we'll be able to fast
forward through the adverts when there's a hard drive in every product.



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