Quote Originally Posted by poli84 View Post
I actually attended a DAB+ conference last Friday.
There are 2 main types of Digital Radio.
DAB (been around in the UK and Germany since 2003).
DAB+ which has been available in Australia for around 18 months and is available in all capital cities.
The service will drastically be improved over the coming years with much better coverage.
It's another government stuffup just like the digital tv changeover where early adopters of set top boxes got screwed when the government kept delaying cutoff dates. The date for the final changeover to digital will keep getting pushed back, the expansion will be delayed and towards the end pensioners will receive free DAB+ units for their cars.

Just last year, Germany switched over to DAB+ so in the coming years, it won't be anything out of the ordinary for VW group cars (and all other German cars) to come with the factory fitted DAB+ radios that work very well in Australia.

Currently, there are no cars in Australia that come with DAB+ from the factory.
BMW is tipped to be the first with some on their way.
BMW has DAB+ as an option on 5 and 7 series already.

Manufacturers are not going to offer it as an option until final cutover dates are set in stone as are coverage plans because at the moment they keep changing. The government needs to pull it's finger out and get digital running across Australia asap and offer incentives to manufacturers to offer this as standard in their cars. Until this happens it will drag out for many years.