The British government’s Digital Radio Working Group has issued a report proposing that radio broadcasts should switch entirely to DAB by the year 2020.
“DAB is a worldwide standard,” said the group’s chairman, Barry Cox, “Albeit a seriously flawed one with poor error correction, compromised audio quality and limited signal coverage which has only really taken off in Britain and Denmark, where people are notoriously cloth-eared.”
Consumer groups have hesitated to back the group’s call, asking whether Britain really needs a vast mountain of discarded, useless FM radios, closely followed by a mountain of obsolete DAB radios once the improved-but-incompatible DAB+ standard is adopted.
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