{"id":274,"date":"2007-03-12T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T11:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2009-01-25T21:19:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T21:19:11","slug":"thinking-of-buying-a-dab-radio-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/12\/thinking-of-buying-a-dab-radio-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of buying a DAB Radio? &#8211; Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignright\" src='\/blog\/wp-content\/dab_logo.gif' alt='DAB Radio Logo' \/>Wait until spring that is.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalradiotech.co.uk\">DigitalRadioTech.co.uk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalradiotech.co.uk\/articles\/All-DAB-receivers-will-be-obsolete-in-a-few-years-time.php\">current DAB receivers will be obsolete within a few years<\/a> as DAB+ is introduced and the existing DAB services are switched off. The new DAB+ standard uses the AAC+ codec, while the existing services use MP2. Receivers capable of receiving the new services will only be available from spring.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s if you really want a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalradiotech.co.uk\/dab\/dab_summary.htm\">poor quality alternative<\/a> to FM. DAB is capable of so much more, but even the BBC has gone for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalradiotech.co.uk\/dab\/bbc_dab.htm\">content over quality<\/a>. If you&#8217;re listening at home, stick to Digital Radio via Satellite or Freeview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait until spring that is. According to DigitalRadioTech.co.uk, current DAB receivers will be obsolete within a few years as DAB+ is introduced and the existing DAB services are switched off. The new DAB+ standard uses the AAC+ codec, while the existing services use MP2. Receivers capable of receiving the new services will only be available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[175,37],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-dab-radio","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}