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Radioplayer Worldwide has unveiled the “Reference Radio” at the WorldDAB General Assembly in Berlin — a prototype touchscreen radio for dashboards, designed to show how smart ‘hybrid’ technology can transform in-car listening.

Radioplayer has unveiled the Reference Radio, a prototype touchscreen radio for dashboards, designed to show how smart ‘hybrid’ technology can transform in-car listening.

The Reference Radio “hybrid” prototype is multiplatform, able to play DAB digital radio, FM, and internet radio streams, and shows a single list of stations across all those platforms.

It’s the latest move in a series of ambitious partnership projects, aimed at helping car companies and broadcasters deliver a better user-experience in the vehicles of the future, Radioplayer has unveiled the Reference Radio, a prototype touchscreen radio for dashboards, designed to show how smart ‘hybrid’ technology can transform in-car listening.

The British commercial-public broadcaster partnership Radioplayer has unveiled a prototype touchscreen radio for dashboards, designed to show how smart ‘hybrid’ technology can transform in-car listening. Radioplayer describes Reference Radio as “the latest move in a series of ambitious partnership projects, aimed at helping car companies and broadcasters deliver a better user-experience in the vehicles of the future.”

Radioplayer has unveiled the Reference Radio, a prototype touchscreen radio for dashboards, designed to show how smart ‘hybrid’ technology can transform in-car listening.

Radioplayer has unveiled the Reference Radio, a prototype touchscreen radio for dashboards, designed to show how smart ‘hybrid’ technology can transform in-car listening. The new technology was demonstrated at the WorldDAB General Assembly in Berlin, and unlike most modern car radios, the Reference Radio shows a single list of stations across all those platforms. There’s no need to select different sources like DAB, FM, or Internet first - the driver just taps a station logo to play it, and the system does the rest.

RadioApp, the industry’s streaming radio platform, will now be used to provide Australian commercial and public radio content into the DTS Connected Radio platform.

The new partnership will see CRA’s RadioApp utilised to provide Australian commercial and public service radio content for Xperi’s DTS Connected Radio platform. This new integration will allow the refining of system operations, support on-going global automotive field testing and product development of hybrid radio, and validate listener experience.

Addressing the full audience of the WorldDAB General Assembly 2018 in English, CSA board member Nicolas Curien detailed the different phases of the DAB+ deployment in France and the public calls for applications.