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1. Comment - Coming Soon: High-Definition Radio

   (Dec 7, 2005 - 8:27 AM)

   Interesting reading this. Here in Europe there are two digital radio systems now, DRM and DAB.
   DRM (DigitalRadioMondiale) is broadcast on short and medium wave (what you call AM)now by big time staions like BBC WS, Radio Netherlands WS and radio Luxembourg, the biggest commercial radio group in Europe. It gives either FM quality on AM or stereo in somewhat lesser quality, but better than the old AMstereo. One problem though: the promised receivers are not te be bought anywhere yet, you have to modify your pc to listen to it. One big German station already went back to AM cos of this.
   DAB is broadcast on the band III television spectrum, european channel 12 is cleared for this, others will follow. DAB can give CD quality, but does not.Why? Too many programs in the signal.Sets are expensive, and programming is mainly public radio also available on AM/FM. The system is promoted and subsidized by governments thru a european union plan. Commercial stations stay on FM, that is where the listeners are. DAB is only a succes in the UK, where there are many stations. In Germany they think about stepping out of DAB.