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.

  • DosDudeA
    41·
    13 days ago

    Dab reception is still shit indoors. I’m not going to drill an antenna through my house just to get better reception. So if FM falls, I won’t be listening to the radio anymore.

    • Patch@feddit.uk
      3·
      13 days ago

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

      I mostly listen to BBC radio, and I default to listening over BBC Sounds rather than DAB when I’ve got a WiFi connection. I mostly only use DAB when I’m in the car or out in the garden.

      • DosDudeA
        3·
        13 days ago

        Yes. But i have a stereo with DAB capabilities. It’s not ideal connecting via bluetooth to listen to internet radio.

      • evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
        1·
        12 days ago

        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.