http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2008/10/01/standardising-the-standards-why-dab-digital-radio-profiles-became-essential/ Nick Piggott's blog about the intersection between new media and radio Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:27:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2008/10/01/standardising-the-standards-why-dab-digital-radio-profiles-became-essential/comment-page-1/#comment-4593 Ian Sinclair Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:26:52 +0000 http://nick.piggott.name/blog/?p=101#comment-4593 So we are to be forced into DAB by turning off FM. Where I am , the FM signal is the only radio that can receive Classic FM. I tried two DABs - one could tune in Classic FM if we placed it on the bedroom windowledge; the second could tune only some BBC channels. Useless, or what? DAB is not helped by dishonest advertising that fails to point out that on a portable set with a msll loudspeaker there is absolutely no quality advantage to DAB. At least they are now reluctantly acknowledging that coverage of anything other than BBC is pretty patchy. So we are to be forced into DAB by turning off FM. Where I am , the FM signal is the only radio that can receive Classic FM. I tried two DABs – one could tune in Classic FM if we placed it on the bedroom windowledge; the second could tune only some BBC channels. Useless, or what? DAB is not helped by dishonest advertising that fails to point out that on a portable set with a msll loudspeaker there is absolutely no quality advantage to DAB. At least they are now reluctantly acknowledging that coverage of anything other than BBC is pretty patchy.

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