Re: DAB industry admits DAB is outdated



DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:

If I were a German radio broadcaster, I'd go with DVB-H2 - LDPC + BCH
coding, QAM and MIMO all together and they'd get on mobile phones at
the same time.


Game over:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T#The_DVB-T2_draft_standard

1.7 MHz channels

That will mean that DVB-H2 will also be able to use 1.7 MHz channels as
well - exactly the same channel bandwidth as DAB. The main drawback of using
DVB-H was that the minimum channel bandwidth was 5 MHz, which was deemed to
be too wide in terms of spectrum use and the power would have to be 3 times
higher.

DVB-H2 now offers:

* MIMO
* LDPC + BCH error correction
* 1.7 MHz channels
* Longer guard intervals than DAB/DAB+

1.7 MHz channels is the final piece of the jigsaw.

DVB-H2 is a perfect digital radio system.


--
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

The adoption of DAB was the most incompetent technical
decision ever made in the history of UK broadcasting:
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/dab/incompetent_adoption_of_dab.htm


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