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Thankfully the "more channels/ more choice" actually happened in Norway. However - apart from that, DAB is a bad deal. Right now it's become a typical "we can'
by kristofferR 12y ago
Thankfully the "more channels/ more choice" actually happened in Norway. However - apart from that, DAB is a bad deal.
Right now it's become a typical "we can't stop right in the middle, so let's continue forward full speed"-situation. So much has been invested in DAB in Norway that stopping the transition would be just as expensive, if not more so.
- scholia 12y agoIf DAB was a modern technology that might make sense. However, it was developed in the 1990s around the MP2 codec. It's roughly as old as the web. You'd not choose DAB if you were doing digital radio today.
- kristofferR 12y agoNorway is using DAB+, which is based on the modern HE-AAC codec. We were going to use the old MP2-based DAB, but switched to DAB+ pretty quickly. Right now most channels are being transmitted in either DAB or DAB+ (DAB+ devices can receive both), but DAB+ is the future and DAB is going away. It's going to suck for the early DAB adopters though, who's soon going to be left with incompatible radios.
- justincormack 12y agoEarly DAB adopters is the UK - we do not have DAB+ and no plans to introduce it. It is a mess.