> DVB-H is fine, as long as you don't mind waiting ten seconds to change channels (!!!) or waiting until 2011 for the frequencies to be freed up in the UK.
I doubt that'd remain as-is forever... Remember the first Sky digiboxes, Freeview and DAB receivers? How sluggish they were? As device power increased, and cacheing was improved, that time decreased. I doubt it'd stay at 10 seconds for long. > Given that DAB is not dying (don't confuse one radio group's short-sighted business problems with a death of the medium), it would make rather more sense to continue investing in its infrastructure. Of course (cycnic mode firmly turned to on), that would be the BBC R&D's official standpoint on this, given the (estimated) amount they're investing / planning to invest in Olinda ;) Buying a radio with a useless core function would be very embarassing! That said, DAB services, given adequate bandwidth, are quite sufficient - unfortunately, there's too much quantity and not enough focus on quality (I still feel like the multiplexes are being treated like shelves in a budget supermarket). Why can't the industry move towards OTA-upgradeable on-chip decoders? The day that format is standardised and Pure / Roberts comes out with a good standalone player, I'll buy into that immediately. Olinda is a step in the right direction with regards to that but add-on modules only work for so long... When the hardware exists to support this, why not start working with it? Even if you initially work with upgrade-via-USB or somesuch similar, you can start with DAB, upgrade the on-chip decoder to DAB & DAB+, then add AAC support, etc etc... No add-on modules required, and it moves away from the throwaway sensibilities many people have with technology these days. Back to the days of a CD player that would last 10 years! </digress> - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
