[BC] DRM broadcasting to begin in USA

[Goran Tomas]

>From the news today:

10.23.2007
>
> Frontier Silicon said it has shipped 5 million DAB ICs and modules.
>
> The company said it enjoys more than three-quarters of the DAB receiver
> market and that "with the new DAB+ standard opening new markets for digital
> radios around the world, Frontier expects DAB/DAB+ exponential growth over
> the next five years."
>
> In the U.K., it said, DAB has a listening base of nearly one in five
> adults; sales have also come from Denmark, Norway, Germany, Belgium and
> Switzerland.
>
> "With the recent availability of the new DAB+ standard, several new
> countries are expected to fully adopt DAB/DAB+ in the coming years," it
> stated.
>
> "Australia is launching its digital audio services at the end of next year
> and many other countries are expected to follow suit soon, including Italy,
> Switzerland, Czech Republic, Malta, Israel, Hungary, Kuwait, Malaysia and
> New Zealand, heralding a worldwide move to digital radio based on the
> Eureka-147 DAB standard."
>
> Frontier makes a multistandard module for DAB+/DAB, Wi-Fi and music
> streaming, as well as a more economical module for mass-market DAB radios.
> Its recent platforms also feature iPod docking capabilities.



What I think is an added benefit in regards to DAB+ and DRM both using
standards based codecs (MPEG-4 AAC and aacPlus) is that deocding chips can
be easily combined and cheaply mass produced to decode both DAB+ and DRM.


Regards,
Goran Tomas