Digital radio is great and all, but its take up has been hindered by a lack of options of in-car devices. Toyota has announced the’re about to change all that, installing a DAB+ radio as standard in its Camry Atara SL model. More »
OK, you’ve been able to pick inbuilt DAB+ as an option on certain high end vehicles for a while. But if you’d asked me what the first vehicle range to come with a DAB+ as absolutely standard was going to be, I would not have picked trucks. More »
I’m tempted to go all Edwin Starr on the news of a new digital channel that’ll serve (essentially) just ads. Do we need to use up digital spectrum like this? More »
The digital radio audience is slowly expanding, even if the footprint of digital radio coverage isn’t exactly blossoming outwards from metropolitan centres. Pure’s latest radio takes on that portability challenge, although it’s not unique — we’ve seen portable DAB+ units before. More »
Since 1995, Triple J’s Unearthed initiative spotlights unsigned acts by giving them precious radio playback time and the audience that goes with it. And from October 5, its new digital-only radio station will take that exposure a step further. More »
Digital radio finally launched in Australia back in August 2009, and two years on, 7.6 per cent doesn’t seem like much. Until you note that two per cent of that growth came in the last six months alone. New industry data suggests that almost a million people now listen to digital radio in the five state capitals — are you one of them? More »
It’s been almost two years since digital radio was officially launched in Australia, which means it’s probably a good time to check in and see how the technology has been coming along. Fortunately, a new report into the Digital Radio industry has plenty of information on how the tech’s progressing, including some very interesting stats. More »
DAB+ has been around for about 18 months now in Australia, but to date there has been precious few ways to listen to that crystal clear digital broadcast in your car, and the options that have been available have all been external units, not a cleanly installed DIN solution. Crystal Digital Audio have finally broken the integrated DAB+ in-car drought, with their EDB410BT head unit. More »
Despite my constant suggestions to upgrade, there’s still one piece of technology in our house that’s old enough to be considered an antique – my wife’s bedside clock radio. She’s owned that thing for at least 20 years, and although it still works, it reeks of 80s gadget ugliness. I’m seriously considering the Siesta Mi from Pure as a replacement. More »
