Re: Complete the migration to DAB+ before faffing with FM
The good news though, is that some DAB radio manufacturers do seem to have learned from their previous mistakes and have evolved. ... I was able to firmware-upgrade an approx. 10yr old PURE radio to enable DAB+ ...
it depend son how the system was built.
In the early days they would have had silicon to do the bulk of the "number crunching" for the simple reason that processors with the horsepower to do it would have been a) expensive and b) power hungry. However, roll forward a decade or two, and what once could only realistically be done in hardware, is now just a background task to a modern small processor.
Hardware carefully built to do the old DAB can't be upgraded - but if it's a later model and it's been done in software, then within reason it can be. And brownie points to manufacturers that are prepared to offer updates for something sold more than 5 minutes ago.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
