Posts by Colin Suttie

Famous Five film lined up

Lashings of ginger beer

Who else noticed the url of this story????????

Is it only here because of the clearly crow-barred in reference to mobile phones and laptops?? (No mobes or lappys though)

DAB: A very British failure

Audio quality isn't a technical issue, it's a monetary issue.

The only reason we have "poor" audio quality on DAB is that the people who own the multiplexes crowbar far more stations into each multiplex than what the technology was ever supposed to support.

The same applies to digital terrestrial telly. If it weren't for all those flippin awful unemployment TV channels (the ones selling stuff out the Argos catalogue and offering dubious opportunities to win vast amounts of money), the pictures would be far better.

The telly issue will be helped after analogue switchoff when more spectrum will be available, I believe there are plans to add a significant number of additional multiplexes.

As for DAB, it doesn't use the same bit of air as FM, so switching that off won't help. The band used by DAB is relatively empty (apart from in Northern Ireland where they still use it for analogue telly...I think). If OFCOM extracted the digit, and a willing operator were to come forward, I'm sure we could have bazillions of DAB stations, at good bitrates, in fairly short order.

Mine's the anorak......