According to the Brits at Autocar, last year’s Digital Britain report confirmed the fact that analogue radio signal will no longer be broadcasted by 2015. However, this is a desired date and it is not known if the digital radio standard will actually be imposed by then.
Until now, the digital radio didn't prove too popular among automotive manufacturers, but Digital Britain is determined to increase the rate of this important change.
“Digitial radio is here to stay now. There have been some false starts in the industry in the past but Digital Britain is ensuring that it will be rolled out as standard in all new models from 2013,”, Anthony Sethill, chief executive of the UK’s leading DAB component supplier Frontier Silicon was quoted as saying by Autocar.
Sethill added that a key factor in the acceleration of the process is the fact that France has announced its decision to cease analogue signal broadcasting from 2013.
Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) is a technology which first appeared in the 80s and has been adopted by around 20 countries worldwide. In its most recent development it is called DAB+ and features enhanced audio codecs & stronger error correction coding. Receivers which support this standard have been produced starting with 2007. An update that allows older models to adapt to the new standard has also been released.
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