Positive echo for Digital Radio
16 mai 2013
It was the world biggest special event where car industry, broadcasters and digitalradio experts did meet: the 5th WorldDMB Automotive congress on 16 May in Hamburg. Keynote speaker Christian Vogg, EBU Head of Radio, made clear in his introduction: "the future of radio is hybrid". There are a lot of opportunities in the fruitful combination of broadcast and broadband. Knowing about the still very diverse digitalradio landscape in Europe he urged the audience to become even more active as till now. Especially car manufacturers should contribute by integrating DAB+ radios as a standard in new cars without asking their customers for additional payment.
Participants discussed as well the latest developments for upgrading analogue car radios with digital add-ons. They also debated new telematic services.