“Ford drop CD from In-Car radios” scream the headlines.
As ever things aren’t quite that dramatic! I was speaking with Eddie Murphy, the Head of Ford Ireland, who said any move regarding in-car entertainment is a gradual one. The future for Ford is USB mp3 drives, aux inputs, DAB and even connections to cloud services.
One gradual move becoming evident with all manufacturers is the inclusion of DAB as standard in all new car models. As a presenter of a motors programme, every day I get press releases about new motors, and …

Car manufacturer Ford have just announced that DAB radios will be fitted as standard in all Ford models from next year.
Part of the roadmap for switchover to DAB in the UK is to have DAB as standard in all new cars by 2013. So Ford have beaten that deadline by a year.
Read the full story at What Car magazine.

Another key milestone in the roll-out of digital radio is the agreement today from motor manufacturers to install DAB receivers in cars from 2014.
This fits very well with UK and French targets for digital broadcasting with both countries having key digital dates around 2015.
Up to now car manufacturers have been reluctant to install DAB radios due to conflicting standards across Europe. However, now the WorldDAB standard has been established, a single €10 chipset can handle all these different types of signal. This means a digital radio set will work equally …