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Re:Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio by pjc50 on Monday July 01, 2024 @10:33AM (#40846200)
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.
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Re:Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio by mrguyorama on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @03:51PM (#40869417)
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.

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