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Re:Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio by w8rbt on Friday January 06, 2017 @09:25AM (#13336366)
There is only one reason. It's much more efficient. Engineers have to keep slicing things thinner and thinner to accommodate more and more people and needs. This impacts everything. Food, water, shelter, medications, transportation, communications, etc. Efficiency is king. It has to be.
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Re:Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio by mrswag on Friday January 06, 2017 @09:51AM (#13336587)
FM works, and doesn't need any addition when you increase the number of listeners. I don't get it. Why throw away millions of perfectly fine radios?
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Re:Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio by w8rbt on Friday January 06, 2017 @10:59AM (#13337276)
Digital is more narrow and compact and allows more efficient use of the spectrum in general. More transmissions, different uses, sharing, freeing space up for other allocations, etc. All of that is resource/demand driven. More people is more demand.
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Re:Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio by gpvos on Friday January 06, 2017 @03:23PM (#13339864)
While DAB transmission is more efficient than FM, the receivers are more complex and draw more power than FM receivers. I'm not sure the tradeoff is right in this case.
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Re:Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio by askvictor on Friday January 06, 2017 @03:29PM (#13339899)
I get that argument for tv transmission, but the FM bandwidth is tiny by comparison, so just doesn't seem to justify the switching pain (particularly regarding cars)
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