Is Hybrid radio the answer to the ultimate in-car audio experience
12 November 2018 · News
Last week came the announcement that the CRA and would be joining the BBC and NAB to put radio front and centre in car audio with DTS Connected Radio.
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In a similar article on RadioPlayer's hybrid radio, source article, RadioInfo November 7, 2018, all RadioPlayer needs to do is to incorporate AM radio stations just as the DTS Connected Radio, source article "https://www.radioworld.com/tech-and-gear/xperi-will-showcase-dts-connected-radio-platform-at-ces, Jan 5, 2018.
The BBC are have been running the latest in-car version of RadioPlayer, source http://www.radioplayer.co.uk/blog/radioplayer-car-launch since 2017 and will be trialing DTS Connected Radio, sources, RadioInfo, 26 September 2018, and https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180925005483/en/Xperi-BBC-Collaborate-Enhance-In-Car-Radio-Listening .
At the moment a "seamless" connection between AM, FM, DAB and IP streams are based on the assumption of terrestrial transmission of signals. If one signal from say the AM (MW frequency) is not available, then either the DAB and/or IP streams should substitute. If one is in the middle of the nowhere, there would not be any reception.
Perhaps whatever form of hybrid radio, it could be extended to the reception of satellite radio. By the way some DAB radios have the capability of receiving L-Band satellite reception such as the 2009 model Pure Siesta bedside clock radio.
But why limit digital radio to DAB and incorporate Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) into the hybrid radio mix?
Anyway If we said aside the business model (subscription) and non-DAB but digital technology of the US's XMSirius satellite radio, they too are developing IP stream-based apps with their service.
It could well that the future hybrid radio could be a competition between RadioPlayer, DTS connected radio and XMSirius. Will it be like the competing technologies of SQ vs Discrete quadraphonic of the 1970s with no winners, VHS vs Beta of the 1980s with VHS winning but now redundant, or like Blu-ray vs HD discs with blu-ray the winner?
Time will tell,
Regards
Anthony of exciting Belfield