Looks like radios in smartphones in Europe will kill DAB dead in its tracks. "Digital Radio FM Europe 2013" seems to think that DAB's time is numbered (as do most other radio professionals in Europe).
" Radio in Smartphones Will Kill DAB
The mobile phone will become the major radio listening device - but without DAB+
Today, mobile phone are with most people in the world. It is becoming the most common radio receiver also in developing countries as in India and in Africa. You are listening via the built-in FM-receiver which can be found in quite stripped down devices as well as in more advanced smartphones as Samsung S-series and Nokia Lumia - or you are listening via streaming audio on the Internet.
However, there are no mobile phones with built-in DAB-receivers on any market even not in DAB-established countries as Denmark and the UK.
The major reason is that a DAB receiver in a mobile phone will have an 8-9 times higher energy consumption than a FM receiver. This includes the Eurochip concept promoted by the EBU. Also the mobile phone antennas are not DAB capable and another antenna must be added."
Sounds like Deja Vu all over again, no? IBOC cheerleaders in this forum constantly uphold Europe as being a digital success story for radio despite the consistent signs in the radio press over there that it is dead in the water. Digital radio is not doing any better in Europe than it is here despite some government's heavy handed legislation to do away with analog radio.
whole article at:
http://digitalradioinsider.blogspot.com/2013/09/radio-in-smartphones-will-kill-dab.html
" Radio in Smartphones Will Kill DAB
The mobile phone will become the major radio listening device - but without DAB+
Today, mobile phone are with most people in the world. It is becoming the most common radio receiver also in developing countries as in India and in Africa. You are listening via the built-in FM-receiver which can be found in quite stripped down devices as well as in more advanced smartphones as Samsung S-series and Nokia Lumia - or you are listening via streaming audio on the Internet.
However, there are no mobile phones with built-in DAB-receivers on any market even not in DAB-established countries as Denmark and the UK.
The major reason is that a DAB receiver in a mobile phone will have an 8-9 times higher energy consumption than a FM receiver. This includes the Eurochip concept promoted by the EBU. Also the mobile phone antennas are not DAB capable and another antenna must be added."
Sounds like Deja Vu all over again, no? IBOC cheerleaders in this forum constantly uphold Europe as being a digital success story for radio despite the consistent signs in the radio press over there that it is dead in the water. Digital radio is not doing any better in Europe than it is here despite some government's heavy handed legislation to do away with analog radio.
whole article at:
http://digitalradioinsider.blogspot.com/2013/09/radio-in-smartphones-will-kill-dab.html