Re: The Voice of Murdoch pronounces FM radio dead

In article <e5oh56-5ck.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Wolfgang Schwanke
<see@xxxxxxxxxx> scribeth thus
"The BBC is dishonest" <dab.is@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:6uja7jFff920U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Stick to the subjects that you know about, because you know nothing
about digital radio. The first DAB receiver didn't go on sale until
2000, so if you're suggesting that they couldn't have upgraded DAB to
include AAC when development of AAC began in 1994, and it was
standardised in 1997, then I'm afraid you're wrong.

When you define a standard to be implemented in hundreds of radio
stations and millions of home appliances, you have to define it with
what's possible at the time of conception. You may later regret that it
misses the latest advanced in technology, but you gain the fact that
radio sets don't become obsolete over night every couple of months and
that people actually buy the stuff. Always wanting to have "the latest
technology" as standard makes it a moving target and would result in it
never being finalised. Because in the time between conception and
implementation of a standard, new developments would arise ..


The BBC execs making the decisions simply ignored what the R&D people
were telling them. BBC R&D took part in listening tests in 1996 that
showed that AAC was twice as efficient as MP2 that's used on DAB. The
R&D guys knew, but the execs ignored them.

The rest of Europe has been settled on DAB since the mid-90s. Maybe the
BBC could have pushed a separate standard for Britain, but in the long
run it wouldn't do any good. There's a long history of countries who
opted for "isolate" broadcasting standards, and none of them is a
success story.


A few countries have hardly settled on at standard. And if they had why
don't they standard fit DAB radios in vehicles?..

And as to success stories I hardly think UK DAB is a success story;!..
--
Tony Sayer


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