A Quick Tour of DAB Across Europe - Radio World
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Digitalradio Büro Deutschland recently published a look at the state of DAB+ broadcasting across the continent.

I wonder what is the rationale. Will be shitty if all FM radios become bricks because of some stupid push to obsolete them.

Or is there a smarter plan, like using the bandwidth for something more worthy than FM radio?

UPDATE

Some more FM advantages:

Fast channel changing.

Better reception. There is a station in my city that transmits both DAB and FM. Their DAB signal has chronic cut-outs but their FM station is good enough. And in general, weak FM signals are still useful while weak DAB signals are unusable. So a DAB-only policy marginalises people who live remote from the cities.

  • evenwichtOP
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    9 个月前

    In your own home, couldn’t you just use internet radio instead?

    Internet radio is certainly not a replacement for broadcast radio.

    • Internet at home is not gratis!
    • Internet has many points of failure; radio does not
    • Internet comes with surveillance
    • Residential Internet has less availability than radio; also, some people are offline by choice.
    • Streaming would suck dry quotas of anyone who gets Internet over prepaid mobile service.
    • Residential Internet subscriptions in many (most?) regions cannot be paid for in cash, thus unbanked people are excluded
    • Cloud streaming has a high carbon footprint (though I’m not sure how it compares to FM transmission’s footprint)
    • Internet service has many middle-men and lacks national sovereignty. Most countries cannot escape using US actors in this industry.