Re: DAB industry admits DAB is outdated

Boltar wrote:
On Apr 28, 3:22 pm, "DAB sounds worse than FM" <dab.is@dead> wrote:
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

Presumably they'd use whole channel for audio and not just have a
blank bit where the video would normally be?


DVB-H can carry anything, so DVB-H2 will as well.


Can't help thinking thats a lot of technology to achieve essentially
the same as this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio_receiver


What are you doing on a newsgroup about digital radio then?


--
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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