I've always felt that licensing is the key with DRM. Broad adoption of this technology is bound to fail because of the proprietary nature of the system. Transmitters and receivers all have their cost increased by having to pay license fees to whoever created the technology (in the case of transmitters, I understand that the DRM licensing fees are quite expensive).This distinguishes DRM from historical schemes such as AM and FM that had no "stud fee" attached. For this reason, DRM will fail. A digital shortwave scheme will not have any chance of broad adoption unless it is based on an open specification that is vendor independent and can be built without egregious licensing restrictions.
Lw On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Greg Majewski <[email protected]> wrote: > What will save broadcasting is the desire to get information out to a large > number of people at a reasonable cost. The technology used is not the > issue. For shortwave use, DRM in a monophonic mode (i.e. low bit rate) is > the way to go. If DRM licensing fees were made lower than it will be used > more in my humble opinion. > > Enjoy Life, Greg > Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much > > > On 10/24/2012 01:14 AM, Richard Cuff wrote: >> >> Ain't that the truth... >> >> Rich Cuff >> >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Greg and Joan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Oh for the days of the Beeb at 5.975.... >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Swlfest mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest >> >> To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to >> [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown >> above. >> >> For more information on the Fest, visit: >> >> http://www.swlfest.com >> http://swlfest.blogspot.com >> > _______________________________________________ > Swlfest mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown > above. > > For more information on the Fest, visit: > > http://www.swlfest.com > http://swlfest.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Swlfest mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
