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Date: 24 February 1999
From: Simon_Mackay@BIGPOND.COM
Subject: Re: DAB for now is mainly a media for the car

Radio is mainly listened to on the car radios as stated before, but
also on portable sets, clock radios and the like. We have to wait
until the manufacturers get their act together and develop portable
sets to facilitate this area of listening.

As for enhanced radio, using data to enhance a radio program can be
of benefit to the end-users. For example, my clock radio woke me to
the 7am news bulletin and there was a story about heroin overdosing.
They made verbal references to organisations's names and contact
numbers both after the story and when the bulletin ended. What could
happen would be a DAB receiver would have an information button that
pops up the name and phone number of the organisation and this
information could be copied into a temporary memory in the set,
accessible at all times. With RDI, it could also mean that the
information could be copied to a computer and printed out or one
could "vector to" the organisation's Web page.

The datacasting aspect would work mainly for people who desire the
DAB system to be a bearer for data, rather than a bearer for audio.

With regards,
Simon Mackay

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