Re:Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio
by coretx on Sunday June 30, 2024 @02:15PM
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DAB is optimized for "rights holders".
Not for radio stations, not for end users, not for the state.
It's designed against everyone but the rights holder / copyrights industry interests.
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Re:Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio
by gpvos on Sunday June 30, 2024 @05:16PM
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How so? It's not encrypted or anything similar.
Re:Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio
by teractiveodular on Sunday June 30, 2024 @10:45PM
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Is this actually used anywhere? To me it feels like DAB and any putative DRM mechanisms have already been basically obsoleted by streaming systems like Spotify.
Re:Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio
by pjc50 on Monday July 01, 2024 @10:33AM
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That's not the real rightsholder thing, as hardly anyone bothers with scrambled broadcasts; no, the real rightsholder handicap was limiting the bitrate of original DAB so it sounds worse than CDs.
Re:Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio
by mrguyorama on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @03:51PM
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It never mattered what the max bitrate was going to be, because as long as there was a lower bitrate option that allowed you to broadcast more channels, that was the option station owners were going to use. Because selling X ads makes less money than selling 2X ads.
Digital TV and radio were simply the first casualties of the modern advertising economy.