Digital radio

**G-rig** · 12-08-2009, 10:32 PM

It's a bit like having digital TV with only 5 free to air stations, what's the point if there's nothing on.

I dont really listen to radio but would if we had a whole variety of genres like in the UK and internet radio stations. But i'd want over 128kbps at that sounds rubbish to me. 192 is listenable.

**G-rig** · 13-08-2009, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by Maverick

As far as technology goes this country is way way behind

Sure is, Korea developed Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) years ago and almost all their standalone sat nav units have this feature so enabling you to watch TV and pretty cheap too.

People in japan also watch tv on their phones (not chewing up data like here).

We pay a premium here for old technology.

**Arctra** · 19-08-2009, 04:33 PM

OK, so I've found out a bit, and have some more questions.

If you go to this link you'll see most stations are allocated 192kbps channels: http://www.digitalradioaustralia.com...lex%20info.pdf
According to Sept 2009 issue of APC magazine, broadcasters are given 128kbps for each of their analog stations though. Of the allocations, the stations can choose what they want to push through, so for instance Austereo has split it's 128k pipe into two 64k pipes to push 2dayFM and Pink Radio. But because DAB+ can transmit data along with the audio stream, realistically the 64k stream is split further into 40-56k audio with the remainder used for datacasting (weather, breaking news, etc).

OK, so that's background info. Now as far as DAB+ for the car, I enquired with old Oskar about DAB+ support in the WD6050 replacement. Now Mav, I know you aren't a fan of this unit, but please humour me here. Oskar reckoned if you opt for the headunit with the built in digital TV tuner (DVB-T) it would support digital radio too. Now I don't have a digital TV tuner at home to test this, but hopefully someone can test this and tell me if it's true. Does an Australian DVB-T decoder support DAB+ broadcasts?

Thanks in advance for your responses

**Swallowtail** · 19-08-2009, 04:41 PM

No I don't believe so... I was setting up a DVB-T card in a PC yesterday, and when it scanned it found all of the TV stations and the 4 usual audio only channels that have been there for ages - DiG, etc. I think he's dreaming...