Re: The Voice of Murdoch pronounces FM radio dead

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In article <uycYCsGO6thJFwAw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
tony sayer <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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

Because DAB is unpopular.

it took over 30 years for FM radios to become standard in British
cars and
even then UK car manufacturers couldn't work out that a roof
aerial
was a
'good thing'. The stylist thought it out to go on the wing -
according to
BL.


This is the 21st century. Take-up can be rapid these days -
consider
DVD and digital TV and mobile phones. How things happened 30 or 40
years or more ago is not a good indicator of what would or should
happen now.

But many other formats have failed. Take DAT, DCC, MD for example.


And your point is what? DAB would definitely have failed by now if it
wasn't for the BBC's TV adverts.


What
helps a format succeed is that the general audience sees an obvious
advantage in it, AND that it has the impression that it's going to
stay
around for a while instead of having built-in obsoletion.


How convenient you think that.


Format wars
help to stall a format. Rapid update cycles which render older
devices
useless do the same.


How convenient.



--
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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