{"id":9296,"date":"2014-04-15T10:04:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9296"},"modified":"2014-04-15T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:08:04","slug":"bbc-world-service-features-drm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/bbc-world-service-features-drm\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC World Service features DRM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this BBC World Service report,\u00a0Mark Whittaker explores Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) and, especially, its potential in India. Use the embedded player or link below to listen:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\" data-boourl=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2075026-digital-shortwave-a-radio-revolution\/embed\/v2?eid=AQAAAFI0TVOSqR8A\" data-boowidth=\"100%\" data-maxheight=\"150\" data-iframestyle=\"background-color:transparent; display:block; box-shadow:0 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); min-width:349px; max-width:700px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2075026-digital-shortwave-a-radio-revolution\">listen to \u2018Digital Shortwave: a radio revolution \u2019 on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"https:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/cdn\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(Source: <a title=\"AudioBoo\" href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2075026-digital-shortwave-a-radio-revolution\" target=\"_blank\">Audioboo<\/a> via\u00a0Tarmo Tanilsoo on Facebook)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/drmlogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-415\" alt=\"drmlogo\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/drmlogo.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>You&#8217;ll note the <em>BBC World Service<\/em> fails to mention that DRM has been in use now for over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The report ends by suggesting that portable DRM receivers will be on the market in a few months. Even if DRM radios start appearing, whether or not they&#8217;ll be effective and inexpensive remains to be seen. So far, portable DRM radios have been mediocre performers (at best) and relatively expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong: <em>I would love to see DRM take hold<\/em>, I just have my doubts. DRM might stand a chance if a manufacturer like Tecsun were to build an inexpensive portable radio, with a form factor much like that of their other portables. If they made a DRM version of the <a title=\"The Tecsun PL-380: a great travel radio\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-tecsun-pl-380-a-great-travel-radio\/\">PL-380<\/a>, for example, it could be a winner for both the company and the medium\/mode.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you&#8217;ve never heard what DRM sounds like over the shortwaves, I just posted a fifty eight minute recording of <em>All India Radio <\/em>on the<em><a title=\"SRAA\" href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive\/c6hlohac9ejafb4ddpkah85v237rz3\" target=\"_blank\"> Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>. <\/em>Contributor, Mark Fahey, recorded the broadcast from his home in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve embedded a link to the audio below, but you can listen to the broadcast and read Mark&#8217;s notes on <a title=\"SRAA\" href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive\/c6hlohac9ejafb4ddpkah85v237rz3\" target=\"_blank\">the shortwave archive (click here)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/AllIndiaRadioDigital9.950MHz14April20141945UTC\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this BBC World Service report,\u00a0Mark Whittaker explores Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) and, especially, its potential in India. Use the embedded player or link below to listen: listen to \u2018Digital Shortwave: a radio revolution \u2019 on Audioboo (Source: Audioboo via\u00a0Tarmo Tanilsoo on Facebook) You&#8217;ll note the BBC World Service fails to mention that DRM has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,1114,54,3,746,1167],"tags":[53,2764,2221,104,327,4114,980,4083,2763,74],"class_list":["post-9296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-digital-modes","category-drm","category-news","category-recordings","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-all-india-radio","tag-all-india-radio-drm","tag-all-india-radio-drm-receiver","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-digital-modes","tag-digital-radio-mondiale","tag-drm","tag-india","tag-india-drm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2pW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7496,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/all-india-radio-publishes-a-tender-for-800-drm-receivers\/","url_meta":{"origin":9296,"position":0},"title":"All India Radio publishes a tender for 800 DRM receivers","author":"Thomas","date":"October 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The DRM Consortium has posted an All India Radio\u00a0(AIR) tender for 800 DRM AM\/FM\/Shortwave receivers. 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