Re: Italian stations launch web-only streams

Giuseppe wrote:
> DAB sounds worse than FM <dab.is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Any idea whether these stations will be high or low audio quality?
>
> The 105 stations seem to be at 32k windows media, the RMC ones at 64k.
> 64k seems pretty listenable as far as streaming radio goes, but 32k is
> just unacceptable.


Yeah, 32k is bound to sound crap unless they use HE AAC, and even then
it wouldn't sound good.


> Shame that for some reason most of the big commercial radio groups in
> Italy don't seem interested in broadcasting their stations on DSat.
> I guess that they have less of an incentive compared to the UK, since
> most Italians can get those national stations on FM.


True.


> When Sky took over from the previous platforms and launched its own
> receiver (the same one as Sky UK)


Is it owned by Rupert Murdoch like Sky in the UK?


> there wasn't even any radio station
> in the channels list; don't know if that's changed in the meantime.


It's good that they're starting on the web though.


>>> Old news, but worth mentioning... yet another DVB-H launch in Italy,
>>> this time by 3:
>>> http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1653132,00.html
>
>> Yeah, I read that and meant to start a new thread about it - I
>> must've got sidetracked.
>>
>> That makes 2 different DVB-H networks launching in Italy, isn't it?
>
> Yes.


Looking good!


>> Never let your government have an initiative where they want to get
>> involved with making long-term technology decisions (ours was to be
>> the most advanced digital broadcasting country in Europe), because
>> you end up with the worst of everything!
>
> We experienced some of that when they decided to launch DTT in a hurry
> last year.


Why, what was wrong with the launch?


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