IDS Functional Enhancements – All Land Rover Vehicles
This release includes updated software to support vehicles that will have the Digital audio broadcast module installed.
Looks like DAB's on the way Hopefully the DAB module will retrofitable too The End
2nd Feb 2008 9:09 am
gilmore
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Oh please let it be retro-fittable.
It won't though. All opinions expressed in this posting are my own and are not necessarily those of someone who knows what they are talking about.
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2nd Feb 2008 9:31 am
Pelyma
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I thought DAB was on its way out with DAB+ coming out DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
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Pass, presumably the module will support whatever is the current standard The End
2nd Feb 2008 3:30 pm
Pelyma
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There was a lot on the news recently that DAB sales have been very disappointing and there was talk that impending DAB+ transmissions wouldn't be received by DAB radios and this may be a further nail in DAB's coffin.DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
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spot on. We jumped the gun in the UK and went down the DAB route while most of the rest of the world waited for DAB+. Can't received DAB+ on a DAB set. Betamax, anyone?I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
2nd Feb 2008 7:49 pm
countrywide
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There are no plans for DAB+ in the UK for the next couple of years at least and even after that there is likely to be a dual system, by which time most of us will probably have sold the car.
There are some radio's being released which will offer an upgrade to DAB+.
To be honest I wouldn't worry about DAB+ for a while.
2nd Feb 2008 7:58 pm
tyke65
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DAB? Betamax? I was the one guy in the world who went for Video 2000!
3rd Feb 2008 6:52 pm
countrywide
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tyke65 wrote:
DAB? Betamax? I was the one guy in the world who went for Video 2000!
In your defence, it was a very good system. The one we ended up with was actually the worse of the three.
3rd Feb 2008 7:19 pm
lee01277
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tyke65 wrote:
DAB? Betamax? I was the one guy in the world who went for Video 2000!
I beg to differ .. Those 'eject and turn over for another 4 hours' cassetts with the lock buttons were the best................Somewhere in-between my old D3 and what's to come next .........
3rd Feb 2008 7:23 pm
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I'll mothball my DAB radio and sell it in 40 years as a collectors item along with my HD-DVD.
I'll be loaded What if the "Hokey Cokey" really is what it's all about?
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All the marketing hype that surrounds DAB really annoys me: it is heralded as 'the future' whereas, in terms of audio quality, it is actually a step backwards from the FM system that we have had for the last forty years. A lot of this is down to the commercial pressure to cram in more rubbish stations that nobody listens to at the expense of bandwidth (or bitrate) for the main stations. The only exception is Radio 3, and even that is running at a lower rate than some of the comparable German classical music channels. The problem is that the powers that be are busy re-educating the public to accept mediocre quality in exchange for convenience: compare an iTunes track sampled at 128 kbps against the original CD for example. And of course it's the same with TV: $ky have already stated that they are going to reduce the bitrate of the new HD channels. Grrr.
Caveat emptor: the in-car DAB demos that I have heard have been decidedly dodgy with very irritating drop outs happening all the time in built-up areas. FM is much friendlier in terms of seamless coverage (unless you live in the wilds of Scotland, I suppose...)
Even in Scotland, I'd rather have poor quality (reception) analogue radio than DAB crap. Everything you say is true and goes for TV as well.
Perhaps I'm at that age where being a Luddite is just the way to be, but the same is happening in the non-broadcast radio industry at the moment with about as much success as DAB.
All the manufacturers are jumping on the digital two-way radio thing because it suits them to create a market. Bandwidth is halved and solutions are envisaged by marketeers for problems that never existed.
DAB radios came out at £300+ You can now buy one for £27. A certain nameless 2-way radio manufacturer launched a digital platform that is already doomed since a competitor took out another which isn't compatible.
And the public just lap it up blindly...... The older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom
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Hopefully the DAB module will retrofitable too 
