Is DAB dead?

[Jasonovich]

It's all Radio Ga Ga....... 🙂

DAB/DAB+ will always have a place on car audio applications and once the Government finally decide on a date when they completely shutdown analogue, it will carve out it's niche.

I don't think they will be much traction for DAB in the home scene for portable appliances, like kitchen radios, I think they'll haul in internet radio, it has much bigger presence globally.

I do feel the future of radio lies with the internet but that's just my humble opinion.

 

[DCarmi]

It is a shame the record labels crippled internet radio in the UK. Unless of course you use a VPN. Who'd have thunk that you can so easily get round such parochial restrictions! (You do have to be careful which VPN supplier you use, though.)

 

[Roger_A]

It is a shame the record labels crippled internet radio in the UK. Unless of course you use a VPN. Who'd have thunk that you can so easily get round such parochial restrictions! (You do have to be careful which VPN supplier you use, though.)

Can you explain how record companies have ruined internet radio - I don't use it at the moment but want to do so in future. Also, why you have to be careful about which VPNs to use/not use and why?

Thanks

 

[DCarmi]

Can you explain how record companies have ruined internet radio - I don't use it at the moment but want to do so in future. Also, why you have to be careful about which VPNs to use/not use and why?

Warner and Sony sued TuneIn in 2017 because they claimed TuneIn was in fact a defacto broadcaster and liable to pay licence fees to them. The UK courts agreed and also on appeal, so TuneIn and other such providers stopped non-UK stations from being "broadcast" via their platforms. TuneIn has geoblocked all foreign stations in the UK, and also removed many UK-based stations and rarely will allow new stations to be added in the UK.

If you do use a VPN and if you switch to using e.g. an EU IP address then you can access stations from pretty much anywhere. I don't know if any services allow foreign stations to be "broadcast". I just use TuneIn and pretend to be abroad.

As for VPNs. There are plenty of resources out there on the subject. The issue being if they are free, how do the support their infrastructure supplying the service, especially if that is their only role in life and not being used as a loss-leader?