[BC] bit rate and audio

[Robert Meuser]

The bit rate on FMXTRA can be almost anything you want it to be.

Goran Tomas wrote:
> --- At 16.1.2006 13:05, Mark Humphrey wrote: ---
> 
>> By coincidence, I happened to find a paper yesterday entitled "DAB -- 
>> Is it
>> Already Out of Date?", written by Philip Laven, Technical Director of the
>> EBU _eight_ years ago.  It's good reading -- you can't help but ask 
>> the same
>> questions about our chosen in-band system.   Of course, if the receivers
>> were software-defined, that would help to avoid the problem of 
>> obsolescence.
> 
> 
> Interesting reading indeed, although it was written in 1998. I guess 
> every system has it's drawbacks. Neither DAB or IBOC is ideal, but life 
> is always a compromise...
> 
> FMeXtra seems like a good concept to me, though. Bitrate is a bit too 
> low, but other than that I don't see any serious drawbacks. Admittedly I 
> don't know much about how good it is at handling multipath, mobile 
> reception, etc. and what's expected coverage...
> 
> It's interesting that the author concludes early in the article that 
> audio quality will not be a driving force for any digital system. I 
> guess he didn't expect the envelope will be pushed so far, with stations 
> broadcasting as low as 80kbps MP2 audio...
> 
> Here's where mono helps too! ;-)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Goran Tomas
> 
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