I weep for all the 12 year olds who will never have the thrill of seeing an occasional nipple through the static on a scrambled cable porn station.
Yeah, those 12 year olds with infinite hardcore HD porn at their fingertips on their phones.
That’s only true if you consider DAB+, which allows HE AAC v2, a separate system and not just an update.
If that’s true anywhere, then that’s just policy and not a technical limitation. For example, in Germany the highest bitrates in production use that I could find are 192 kb/s for MP2 and 144 kb/s for HE AAC.
What about AM? here in the USA, AM seems alive and well. I have no idea how the industry is doing 9as regards profitability), but the AM dial (here in Boston) weems well-populated.
like FM, it resides in part of the frequency spectrum that nobody is advocating a better use for. also like FM the digital HD radio transmission is overlaid on the analog signal.
IOW, nobody wants the spectrum, so nobody’s trying to shut down analog radio.
WTF does this mean?
I have a small 5 inch screen TV that accepts digital transmissions that I take to the gym to watch while I trot on the tread mill and such. Problem is, the over the air digital broadcasts are “all or nothing”. If analog were still being broadcast I’d get a picture and audio all the time, albeit sometimes the picture might be 'snowy" at worst.
With digital, if the TV doesn’t receive a full signal, you get nothing. Sucks!
You know what’s weird?
When I was a kid (60’s-70’s) a lot of small radios were AM but not FM. A small transistor AM radio was chump change, but one that had FM too was half a zillion.
Now, one can buy an FM radio at the dollar store, my cell phone has an FM radio build in to it, but no AM radio.
WTF? WHY?
it means “the way everything was when I grew up was perfect in every way, and kids who aren’t growing up in the same way are missing out.”