Re: Digital Radio is in crisis
DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
Woody wrote:
Do you think that one day - probably too late - they will discover
that there are some people out that older than 16 and who like to
hear radio with a bit of quality?
Nah!
Nah, quality ain't in the broadcasters' vocabulary.
It sounds too close to the word "quantity", which is definitely a word
in their vocabulary.
Richard E.
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Relevant Pages
- Re: RRC-06 - Documents about outcome available?
... The dreadful audio quality may well be the reason why 95% of DAB-radios are portable. ... As most people have multiple radios at home: portable radios, clock-radios, fixed radio; walkman-radios; people will start by buying a portable radio as their first DAB-radio; and see from there on. ... This means that there is most demand for this kind of radios; there will be more manufactorers aiming at that market; there will be more choice of portbale radios for DAB and makes the prices go down; and this increases the attraction of this kind of radios even more. ... By the time that they know about these new radio-stations, they might find out that their freeview or skybox -which they aleady had- can also be used for these stations too- and by hooking up some cheapo PC-loadspreakers to the audio-out connectors of their freeview or sky-box; the need to buy an hifi-radio for fixed-mode reception of the digital radio-stations may have dissapeared all-together. ...
(alt.radio.digital) - Re: Dr says audiophiles "taught themselves to become irritated by poor audio quality."
... cost of another BBC radio station. ... if _you_ think the BBC is infinite, ... millions & millions - or B) maintain higher audio quality - ... everybody on to its preferred platforms: DAB and Freeview, ...
(alt.radio.digital) - Re: Dr says audiophiles "taught themselves to become irritated by poor audio quality."
... cost of another BBC radio station. ... if _you_ think the BBC is infinite, ... millions & millions - or B) maintain higher audio quality - ... everybody on to its preferred platforms: DAB and Freeview, ...
(alt.radio.digital) - Re: How is the BBC going to broadcast TV over DAB?
... Richard L wrote: ... Non-compatible changes are inconvenient and ... and politics, not on technical quality. ... In the case of DAB, the best solution would be to release some more RF ...
(alt.radio.digital) - Re: BBC - Change of policy for bit rates?
... I had thought that after 5pm when 5 Live Sports Extra was ... Radio 4 was always trasmitted in mono at 80kbps. ... has the highest bit rate of BBC networks, ... algorithm at 160 kbps to maintain audio quality. ...
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