All that has happened is that DAB+ has been recognised by Ofcom as a technology that exists and is being implemented elsewhere, but won't likely be adopted by an industry which is steadfast against its introduction continually using the argument of "very few DAB+ ready sets" and will continue to do so well into the future. The real worry is section 5, the abolition of audio quality regulation on multiplexes, currently at -2 diffgrade for DAB stations using MP2.
What Ofcom is risking is not an improvement of audio quality using DAB+, but allowing the industry to engage in a race to the bottom in terms of sound quality still exclusively using vanilla DAB, at a time where sound quality is already at rock bottom, Ofcom is giving them the tools to allow them to dig.
Tuesday 15 April 2014 8:35AM
All that has happened is that DAB+ has been recognised by Ofcom as a technology that exists and is being implemented elsewhere, but won't likely be adopted by an industry which is steadfast against its introduction continually using the argument of "very few DAB+ ready sets" and will continue to do so well into the future. The real worry is section 5, the abolition of audio quality regulation on multiplexes, currently at -2 diffgrade for DAB stations using MP2.
What Ofcom is risking is not an improvement of audio quality using DAB+, but allowing the industry to engage in a race to the bottom in terms of sound quality still exclusively using vanilla DAB, at a time where sound quality is already at rock bottom, Ofcom is giving them the tools to allow them to dig.