Very interesting John. Thanks for posting this. Most of the analysis seems on target to me.
Two things concerned me. I am bothered though by the (admitted) arrogance that the company says "we believe we know what our customers want" (i.e. better than the customers do!). It's attitudes like this that I have heard much too often from marketing people in the media and electronics business. Ultimately, it gets companies in serious trouble. As a consumer and listener, I don't want to be told "what I want". [I get that enough from my cable provider!] The other is that while it's true from their standpoint that there is a downside risk to depending outside companies like Reciva to provide the portal, he fails to note that by using their portal they lock you into their products and no others. It's the Apple argument. Great if you like Apple products, bad if you don't. And oh, if Apple (or in this case) Pure Digital ever get bought or go belly up you are left nowhere. So, it isn't quite as ideal a situation as it is made out to be. Overall, Pure Digital seems to have much of it right. For now and for the UK certainly. -- -Rob de Santos -----Original Message----- From: John Figliozzi [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 2:47 PM To: Shortwave programming discussion Subject: [Swprograms] OT: Future of Digital Radio OT because shortwave and DRM goes unmentioned here, but if you read between the lines there are some very intelligent observations made that can be applied to any analysis of analog broadcast, digital broadcast and internet (or "connected") radio. http://www.techradar.com/news/audio/interview-pure-digital-on-the-future-of-radi o-503126?artc_pg=1 John Figliozzi _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
