Digital Audio Broadcasts are really starting to take off in Europe, where the smaller average country size means they can use shorter, and thus cheaper radio wavelengths. Or maybe that’s a lie and it’s because the format offers not only an improved sound quality, but all sorts of really smart, useful features like the new Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) that sends down radio schedules for the next 7 days, letting users program their DAB radios to record programs in the future. If that sounds an awfully convenient and handy, that’s because it is—isn’t it nice when content providers actually try to work with consumers? At the moment Capital Radio has a complete programming information broadcasting in EPG and the BBC is publishing part of their schedule for particular hours of the day. Pure Digital’s popular Bug DAB has a software firmware release that will upgrade their radios in just a couple of months.
DAB EPG for Bug Launches – Radio TiVo [DigitalLifestyles]
