Richard Evans wrote:
dave wrote:


Yes modern 21st century technology, vs 1980's and 1990's technology that
was hampered by lack of processing power. No contest.

Richard E.

Waste of time. Terrestrial radio should be returned to the people so
they can have unbiased news and public affairs. Something to counter
the propaganda on big media.

I think that would be best served by lots of small community stations.
We have some of those over here in the UK, on the FM band. However DRM+
would allow more such stations to fin into the FM band, as it uses a
narrower bandwidth than FM, and can work at lower signal levels.

Richard E.

But you can't build a DRM receiver for a dollar. In the USA there are 2
or 3 radios per citizen.

dave wrote:


But you can't build a DRM receiver for a dollar.

Not at the moment, but as the price of microelectronics goes down, it
could end up being cheap enough. OK perhaps 1 dollar might never be
possible, but cheap enough.

dave wrote:
Richard Evans wrote:
dave wrote:


But you can't build a DRM receiver for a dollar.

Not at the moment, but as the price of microelectronics goes down, it
could end up being cheap enough. OK perhaps 1 dollar might never be
possible, but cheap enough.

Aren't there patent fees involved, for Fraunhaufer and Coding
Technologies, etc.

There are fees for decoding of aac+, but as far as I understand it, it's
a matter of pennies per receiver.

On 9/12/2010 8:07 PM, dave wrote:
Richard Evans wrote:
dave wrote:


Yes modern 21st century technology, vs 1980's and 1990's technology
that
was hampered by lack of processing power. No contest.

Richard E.

Waste of time. Terrestrial radio should be returned to the people so
they can have unbiased news and public affairs. Something to counter
the propaganda on big media.

I think that would be best served by lots of small community stations.
We have some of those over here in the UK, on the FM band. However DRM+
would allow more such stations to fin into the FM band, as it uses a
narrower bandwidth than FM, and can work at lower signal levels.

Richard E.

But you can't build a DRM receiver for a dollar. In the USA there are 2
or 3 radios per citizen.

There was a good explanation of this over at
"http://news.cnet.com/8601-13645_3-20015566-0.html?communityId=2034&targetCommunityId=2034&blo gId=47&tag=mncol;tback"

Look for the post by by "rochmndx" September 10, 2010 7:31 PM PDT.