http://www.digitalradioltd.com News from Digital Radio Ltd at the Cutting Edge of Irish Radio Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:55:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Digital Radio Ltd are happy to announce our official support for the RadioDNS project. RadioDNS enables radio broadcasters to link their FM/DAB signal to IP delivered services significantly enhancing the radio listening experience. This means an FM/DAB radio or mobile phone with wi-fi can identify a radio station from its DAB ... http://www.digitalradioltd.com/radiodns/ Tagging is simply hitting a button on your DAB radio so it will remember a bit of information playing on the screen. The video below shows tagging in operation using an iPhone app called TuneMark. When you hear a song you want to remember the name of, you tag it.  With ... http://www.digitalradioltd.com/dab-tagging/ The increased choice of radio station you get with DAB is nice but what really makes it sexy is Slideshow. This is a simple jpg or series of jpg images broadcast along with the audio and displayed on your DAB receiver. It can be as simple as a static station ... http://www.digitalradioltd.com/slideshow-demo/ The Australian is reporting that more than 100,000 digital radios have been sold Down Under in the six months since DAB+ launched there. The figure, twice as many as expected, was revealed by Frontier Silicon the company which supplies the chips and software for the majority of receivers in the market. ... http://www.digitalradioltd.com/dab-sells/ The Guardian reported yesterday on plans by the UK industry to introduce a radio scrappage scheme similar to the car industry. The plan suggests that people will receive a 20% subsidy on a new DAB set when they hand in their old analogue radio. This idea is actually quite commonplace. As ... http://www.digitalradioltd.com/radio-scrappage/ Another big advantage of DAB+ is the Slideshow feature which allows broadcasters to display colour images on the listeners radio. This brings radio kicking and screaming into the multimedia age allowing stations to show useful information such as now playing, weather, news etc as well as station promotions and, yes, even ... http://www.digitalradioltd.com/see-dab/ The Swedes have become the latest nation to support DAB+ as the future of radio broadcasting. Teracom, the company which operates the transmission network for public broadcasters in Sweden, is actively pushing for DAB+ to be launched there in the next 12 to 18 months. Currently they are trialling a DAB+ service ... http://www.digitalradioltd.com/sweden/ Good old FM has been knocking around since the 40's and RTE have been broadcasting on it since the 60's, However it didn't become popular in Ireland for another 20 years. That's when, in 1981, an entrepreneur called Chris Carey made a decision to base pirate station Radio Nova firmly ... http://www.digitalradioltd.com/fm-decision/ In reply to my last post Is Radio Screwed? my answer is a resounding NO. The world is changing but it's changed before. Marconi himself never envisaged radio as a medium for speech or music. It was other inventors who changed radio to the more human friendly sound medium we ... http://www.digitalradioltd.com/is-there-hope/ A neat idea is being floated by the UK government where new radios would display a listing of stations receivable by the radio regardless of whether they’re on FM or DAB. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Mr. Siôn Simon outlined the idea during this weeks debate ... http://www.digitalradioltd.com/station-guide/