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the receiver manufacturer?).

pictures, accompanied by an audio service or as separate information.

transmission capacity on air.

Rennes, France, prior to the forming of the DAB consortium. As the CCETT also

the ISO/IEC Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG), which worked on standard-

147 members had been very active in testing and presenting the results of their

officially announced its preference for an IBOC system. This was not in line with the

cated to broadcasting.

technical issues of DAB are handled (see below).

development and standardisation still in the phase of early introduction. However,

the ETS; now it is a European Standard EN.)

Technical Report [TR 101758] lists general field strength considerations for a DAB

services was Digital Satellite Radio (DSR). In contrast to later systems, no sound

because a (7,4) block code is used for error correction. This capacity is flexibly

area. Therefore reception is possible with portable receivers outdoors and inside

MPEG-2 standard. This is in contrast to the DAB standard, where the audio coding

DVB adherents that concentrates very much on this question. Unfortunately, even

allocated to the station.

are used (think of stopping at a traffic light). Therefore, from the point of view of

By using the MPEG-2 standard for coding, the audio and video quality will be

conventional AM quality. But bearing in mind that the DAB system typically

situations.

loadable to the client machine along with the content.

Transport protocols and delivery technologies are described in [Kozamernik, 2002].