Pure has announced that they’re bringing the Marshall amp DAB+ radio to Australia. Let’s turn it up to 11.
Either way, you’ll struggle in store trying to pronounce the DFTA52DAB’s title.
Digital radio is almost a year old, and it’s starting to gain a bit of momentum, thanks to units that aren’t just big and bulky. Grundig’s latest DAB+ player is even designed to be taken with you.
One of the benefits of the upcoming digital radio service set to launch next month is that traditional broadcasters will get to launch new stations. We’ve already seen Austereo (2DayFM and Triple M) launch their new digital-only station, Radar, and now DMG (Nova and Vega) have announced their new digital stations: Novanation and Koffee.
Designed with greasy hands, soapy gloves, and cookie-dough-covered fingers in mind, the minimalistic DAB Digital Radio was created for a nitty, gritty kitchen environment.
Intelematics, those traffic-lovin’ Victorians who created the SUNA traffic channel for your satnav, are bringing their traffic updates to digital radio when it launches in May next year.
While the service won’t be anywhere near as comprehensive or practical as the navigation built-in to your satnav (which lets you reroute to avoid congestion), this service will instead act more like the traffic updates you get from the radio already, except in text form on new DAB+ radios.
It won’t cost anything to the user, so long as they have one of these new radio receivers in their car. And while most people aren’t going to head to the local auto shop and buy a new radio for their car, within a few years pretty much all the new cars will come standard with these new radios, meaning traffic information will be readily available for people who own shiny new cars.
Actually, even though this is a pretty cool service for digital radio (which is almost certainly going to struggle to gain traction here), it’d still be cheaper to just buy a traffic-enabled satnav…
