One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 10 March 2005

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How to never miss an episode...

How to never miss an episode with BitTorrent and RSS.
[Via Scripting News]

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European Terrestrial Digital Radio in Trouble

The Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) standard is in crisis, says an columnist at Radio Netherlands. The standard is based on 20-year-old technology and didn’t start rolling out until a few years ago. Adoption is still quite spotty by both broadcasters and listeners. Audio quality is poor because of the tradeoffs of frequency versus compression, so there’s no audiophile advantage here. The UK is the one spot of bright light in which 1.2 million DAB receivers have been sold to date.

There are newer proposals that the commentators doesn’t mention, such as iBiquity’s IBOC (in-band on-channel) used for high-definition (HD) radio in the U.S. and DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale), an in-progress standard for creating a harmonized worldwide modern specification.

iBiquity would like IBOC to spread further as they own a number of key patents, but I would strongly state they’re not asking for ruinous fees to judge by what radio stations pay to install HD and the upcoming expectations of sub-$300 HD radio receivers this year.

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The Canadian general who led an ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping mission during the genocide in Rwanda was honoured Wednesday for his work in the international community. FULL STORY
[Via CBC News]

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The James Guthrie & Alan Parsons Dark Side Interviews
Interviews with the man who mixed the SACD version of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and the man who recorded the original album and did a quad mix in 1973.

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RWonline - A Thank You to Public Radio Engineers
”Huzzah, public radio engineers.

Let's take a moment to acknowledge something that has, in fact, been true for some time: Technical innovation in U.S. radio broadcasting is being led by public radio.”