Worrying developments everybody - the World Digital Audio Broadcasting Forum in South Korea has adopted the AAC+ codec as its standard for DAB digital radio broadcasting, but the UK DAB system uses the MP2 codec. Aaaaargh, what are we going to do? Our resident tech expert says that adopting AAC+ as a standard would enable UK radio firms to broadcast higher quality output at a cheaper lower bitrate, which is a good thing, except that most of the people who have bought DAB radio receivers in this country wouldn't be able to pick them up. Which is why the UK industry intends to stick with MP2 despite quality and cost implications. So, there, now you know.
Nov 10, 2006
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World adopts different DAB format to UK
The World DAB Forum has adopted AAC+ as its standard for digital radio, but the UK will stick with MP2, as UK DAB receivers would not be able to pick up AAC+ broadcasts.