{"id":1404,"date":"2009-09-28T17:23:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2009\/digital-radio-dab\/"},"modified":"2009-09-28T17:23:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T17:23:31","slug":"digital-radio-dab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2009\/digital-radio-dab\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Radio DAB+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Athena Media&#8217;s Digtal Radio report suggests DAB+ as a way forward for <br \/>local national and quasi national broadcasting. RTE has no problem <br \/>going DAB+. 20,000 DAB radio sets are not forward compatible and will <br \/>be unable to get the improved DAB+ signal. RTE closed down all its <br \/>medium wave (MW) services &#038; said the budget saving would be spent on <br \/>digital roll out. RTE rolled out 18 year old DAB &#038; now could adopt <br \/>DAB+ leaving set owners stranded? DAB+ sounds better than DAB even in <br \/>poor reception conditions. It is better at spectrum usage. (more <br \/>stations! to you and me) So my gripe is that RTE killed MW for poor <br \/>old DAB, and we could see them kill off DAB before independents even <br \/>start to broadcast in digital, this is a CRAZY WASTE. 20,000+ digital <br \/>radio set owners will be pissed off. dual broadcast of DAB &#038; DAB+ <br \/>would be spectrum inefficient. they were told it was old tech when <br \/>they trialled it but it graduated from the trial and has been made <br \/>available to up to 56% of the population. <\/p>\n<p \/> More and more it seems broadcasters and the state institutions favour <br \/>multiplex systems over IP as it is a way of controlling who will <br \/>compete for our ears and our attention. Under the current broadcasting <br \/>system the scarcity of spectrum allows for the finite issuance of <br \/>licences controlling who can compete. But on mobile data towers and <br \/>with emerging technologies like wimax, access to spectrum is much more <br \/>democratic. IP radio services right now are available to mobile phone <br \/>owners via dedicated players and apps downloaded from device makers or <br \/>online radio stations. This shift is redefining what radio is and who <br \/>is allowed to run radio services. The old broadcast method of one to <br \/>many is being challenged by innovators and users alike. I doubt that <br \/>the incumbents and their regulators have much to gain in IP space, <br \/>when asked in the survey that was used to compile the digital radio <br \/>report, was online a competitive threat RTE said &#8220;No not a <br \/>replacement. A strong novelty factor.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p \/> the report can be downloaded here <a href=\"http:\/\/url.ie\/2ix0\">http:\/\/url.ie\/2ix0<\/a>      <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.briangreene.com\/digital-radio-dab\">web lab<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athena Media&#8217;s Digtal Radio report suggests DAB+ as a way forward for local national and quasi national broadcasting. RTE has no problem going DAB+. 20,000 DAB radio sets are not forward compatible and will be unable to get the improved DAB+ signal. RTE closed down all its medium wave (MW) services &#038; said the budget&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2009\/digital-radio-dab\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Digital Radio DAB+<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}