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The launch of the new Mitsubishi Lancer and Mitsubishi Colt which come pre-fitted with the Blaupunkt Woodstock DAB52 car radio was a success in Singapore judging from the crowd and sales over the past weeks. In fact, based on a random survey done at the Cycle & Carriage showroom, 74% of the respondents felt the installation of DAB radio in the new car was good value for money. |
| The privileged driver not only gets to enjoy MediaCorp Radio's FM radio service with undisputed clarity but also six exclusive MediaCorp Radio's Digital Radio channels such as Club Play, Cruise, JK-Pop, Chinese Evergreen, Planet Bollywood and Bloomberg Radio. In addition to that, there are also the regular traffic, news, and financial updates besides promotions, contests and quizzes on the Dynamic Label Service (DLS). This comes in the form of scrolling text display on the LCD screen of the car radio. | ||
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 The new Cambridge Audio DAB500 home tuner |
Cambridge
Audio announces the new DAB home tuner, the DAB500, which is expected
to retail at around £150 in the UK from August. The
tuner boasts several upgrades on the company's award-winning DAB300,
including a superior 24bit/192kHz digital-to-analogue (DAC) converter.
For more information, please write to Henry Griffiths from Cambridge Audio |
| The
Goodmans GCD 200 Active DAB/FM/CD player, a versatile AM/FM/DAB radio
that doubles as a top loading CD player, is now available in the UK
at £159. It also comes with a pair of speakers for listening
at home and can be battery-operated. For more information, please write to Tom Parker from Goodmans |
 Goodmans GCD 200 DAB/FM/CD player |
 PURE PocketDAB 1000 handheld DAB radio |
PURE Digital PocketDAB(tm) 1000, a handheld DAB radio, is now on sale in the UK at £169.99. With more than 16 hours of battery life, the PocketDAB 1000 has modern styling with anodised aluminium casework and blue backlight. For more information, please write to Colin Crawford from PURE Digital |
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you know that the cheapest DAB receiver is the PURE Evoke-1 portable
DAB radio and is retailing in the UK at only £99? For more information, visit the PURE Digital website For more information on the many DAB receivers available worldwide: World DAB Forum website For a list of DAB car radio receivers available in Singapore: Digital Radio website |
 Cheapest DAB radio - the PURE Evoke-1 portable |
| Texas Instruments
announces a new highly integrated digital signal processor (DSP) based
TMS320DRE310 DAB baseband chip using a custom developed Eureka 147
DAB software stack from RadioScape. Targeted at handheld and portable
device applications, it is also suitable for automotive applications.
It is the first to include on-chip support for features such as record and playback from flash memory or a MultiMedia Card (MMC), time-shift recording and the capability for simultaneously listening to and recording different channels. The DRE310 also accepts a wider range of audio and data bit rates than previous TI baseband solutions. An increased audio rate of up to 384 kbits/s allows the system to receive the full range of digital audio signals, and the supported data rates can process Digital Multimedia Broadcast (DMB) applications. For more information, please visit the Texas Instruments website Roland K. C. Tan Editor, Digital Radio E-NewsLetter |
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