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There's certainly more on DAB, though outside of London there's possibly less of a difference than you might expect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio
by stordoff 9y ago
There's certainly more on DAB, though outside of London there's possibly less of a difference than you might expect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_the_...
My point wasn't really that FM is better per se though (it clearly isn't, as even high bitrate stereo streams would be a better use of the spectrum), rather that I don't see it as "clinging to obsolete technology" on the user side. It is just, IMO, the better user experience as it currently stands in the UK - I don't think you need to learn to hear the artifacts in 80-128Kbps MP2 streams, as they are often fairly obvious (note that adoption of DAB+ in the UK is virtually nil, and there are no plans to migrate from DAB to DAB+). I think it's somewhat telling that the industry describe it as a "sound quality upgrade for _AM_ stations" (my emphasis, per http://www.ukdigitalradio.com/advice/thebasics/ http://www.ukdigitalradio.com/advice/thebasics/).