This week the first digital radio broadcasts will go live here in Australia and I really think that it is about time this happened. Other countries have had this since 2005 and we have been left in the dark with unreliable and old AM/FM Services.
In case you didn't know, Digital Radio is a radio standard that allows stations to broadcast not just the station but news, song info, traffic updates etc. to your radio. This info would be shown on a screen on your radio, providing a much better service.
I do have my doubts however about the effectiveness of digital radio. With internet radio on the rise it will be hard for regular radio, even if it is digital. to catch up and still stay ahead of internet radio. You can't have live voting with digital radio but with internet radio you just have to click a button and you have voted for teh next song. You can't rate using digital radio and you can with internet radio.
Good Luck to Digital Radio but I think that Internet Radio will be the winner in the long run.
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