More on the digital radio music download trial

The BBC have now published a news story on the DAB music download trial announced yesterday, it offers slightly more information. The service will deliver music to your phone and send a copy to your home PC to put onto your iPod (though I suspect they mean other portable players). There is no mention to what music format and protection scheme is used but my guess is this might all be based on Windows Media as that is what was used for the 5.1 surround sound DAB trials so it is already an established format for DAB broadcasting.

I hope to do some investigations into the DAB IP services later this year to see how they work and what impact they have on the DAB platform.

BBC News story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4882926.stm