And dab plus? That sounds all well and good, but are they going to use this as an excuse to lower the bit rates even more? It will probably end up sounding like xm or sirius. Low quality and more quantity. ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk2 Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:00 AM Subject: Re: The Talk2 List Uk people please read!
Basically I agree with most that the article says. We are the only country in Europe that has DAB, which broadcasts in such horrible low bitrates. However I don't agree with the author's view that DAB system should be completely switched off. In stead, we should totally change the rules. First of all let me say that even some BBC stations sound much better than most commercial ones even if they broadcast 128 kb/so because they use different encoders. Also, DAB broadcasts in 196 kb/s the only 2 that do them being virgin radio nationally and capital radio in London sound quite good. I think first change that needs to be made that the multiplex system should be scrapped all together and licences should be given per station bases. It should also be regulated in the way that there's enough bandwidth. It is possible, but it could only happen if ofcom would change the rules and put minimum for music station to be 196 KB/s like it is in Spain and quite a few other European countries. However since ofcom likes to lick asses of commercial fat corporate managers who obviously only care about profit rather than sound quality it is unlikely to happen. I blame that idiot Ralf Bernard a lot for this, because he's the one who pushed digital so fast and he's the one who had an idea of cramming as many stations as possible on to muxs. So now he has screwed up the state of digital radio in this country, made capital radio drop record amount of listeners since their existence, totally fucked up, pretty much automatised XFM making in to a station with hardly any DJs and play about 30 same songs all day long from what once was probably the best rock/indie/alternative station in the world, he resigns. Is there anyone to save us? I still keep hoping for both digital radio in general and XFM to improve, to stand up and fight this corporate bullshit, but I doubt that I got much to hope for. Vanja http://www.sudar.co.uk http://mashupradio.net MSN/windows live messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vanja121 Skype: vanja121 ----- Original Message ----- From: matthew cooper To: talk2 Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:59 PM Subject: The Talk2 List Uk people please read! This is stupid. If you are familiar with a thing called DAB digital radio, then this article is for you. This will probably persuade you to get rid of, or not get dab altogether, which is what I'm thinking of doing if this continues. For more info, click on the link below. http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/articles/96-kbps-stereo-stations-proposed-for-local-DAB.php
