[BC] DRM broadcasting to begin in USA

[Tom]

Radio continues to have ONE BIG ADVANTAGE over all other media, fixed 
or mobile:  All you have to do is TURN IT ON, and it works.  No need 
to wait for the operating system to load, no waiting for any apps to 
load, no skull sweat deciding which tunes and what order to play 
'em... push a button, you've got music - or whatever your thing 
is.  (Personally, there has been little or no REAL music since the 
mid 70's, except possibly some few out of Nashville - rare even 
there...but that's another topic.)
Interesting note here:  transistors took over from tubes in no small 
part because they are "instant on" devices.  I'm tempted to dig out 
one of my tube radios and compare the start time from cold tubes to 
quality sound, to how long it takes a typical computer to boot, load 
the OS, and load and start a streaming audio receiver, the stream to 
connect, buffer, and produce "sound"....

Hmmm

Tom S.

Dana Puopolo wrote:
>But Rich, we have perhaps ONE decade before broadband Inernet is widely
>available in your car. How relevant will the radio be then?