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By Jack Carfrae SMMT chief executive Paul Everitt told delegates at this month's VRA Conference that the adoption of DAB digital radios in cars will have a significant effect on the remarketing arena. Everitt, speaking at the event held at Silverstone, ...

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, and International DMB Advancement Group (IDAG) today announced the launch of digital radio, mobile TV and internet services with the Samsung GALAXY S WiFi 5.0. The device will be available from April, 2012 in Germany, the Netherlands, UK, Switzerland, Norway and South Africa.

Intel has few peers when it comes to driving digital technology. Now the Silicon Valley giant believes it has penetrated one of the last bastions where another approach still prevails: radio

A plug in and play DAB interface is claimed to be a neat and effective way of upgrading your existing car radio. With the UK scheduled to switch fuly to digital radio by 2015, more and more drivers are wondering about DAB radio ...

Mutloatse is a big proponent of a Korean broadcasting technology called digital multimedia broadcasting, or DMB, and of DAB radio. He says Mobile TV plans to offer a radio broadcasting network based on enhancement of the DAB standard, known as DAB , ...

“Thanks to the higher bandwidth available with DAB digital radio, the new TPEG standard can be used to provide drivers with more detailed and useful traffic information, whether travelling around town or making long cross-country journeys.

Live DAB transmissions with 100 W ERP were demonstrated for the Digital Radio Summit at the EBU Radio Week, at the European Broadcasting Union headquarters in Geneva. Using mmbTools with a 600 W VHF power amplifier, mask filter and an antenna, ...

The frequency to be used to broadcast DAB+/ DMB signals at Mobile World Congress 2012 has been confirmed as being in block 9C in Band III corresponding to 206,352Mhz.

After Germany in 2011, several countries plan to launch terrestrial digital radio this year or next year. Some, like Norway, are already starting to look at FM switch off. In France, the CSA attempts to revive the issue.

At a meeting in Lillehammer last week all Norwegian DAB/DAB+ content providers agreed to implement a common target level for loudness normalization. Taking the EBU's R 128 as a basis for their discussions, the digital radio broadcasters chose -15 LUFS as a preliminary target level, as opposed to the -23 LUFS specified in the EBU recommendation