[BC] Interesting IBUZ article & WTW

[Phil Alexander]

On 25 Mar 2007 at 13:14, Robert Meuser wrote:

> That is not the case for digital only, especially if it is not the IBOC 
> we all know and 'love'. :-)
> 

As Robert alludes, the real culprit is the Ibiquity / NRSC-5
hybrid system which places digital transmission immediately 
beyond the central analog sidebands.

It might have been interesting to see field trials of the
system Lucent developed which put digital information
UNDER the analog adjacent to carrier. However, when USADR
bought the Lucent DR operation and renamed itself Ibiquity,
further work on that system stopped.

One might say that Ibiquity earned their present market
position the old fashioned way. They bought the 
competition.

Fortunately, DRM remains as an independent effort that may 
gain traction in other venues. At some point, that could 
force some interesting contests, but only time will tell.


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