Over 50 different combined DAB/DAB+ receiver models commercially available *** A typical DAB kitchen radio consumes a third less power than an energy saving light bulb *** There are more DAB radios available than any other digital radio platform *** DAB Slide show pictures enables advertisers to couple pictures with audio magnifying consumer brand awareness *** DAB family of standards is extremely flexible - it is easy to transmit DAB, DAB+ and DMB on the same transmission *** DAB+ offers lower infrastructure costs for new services than any other digital radio platform ***

DAB-IP

DAB-IP is an alternative possibility for digital multimedia and video broadcasting. It was used in the UK on a trial basis over a period of about 18 months which finished end of 2007. Unlike DMB, this variant is not fully standardised by WorldDMB/ETSI, but makes use of a hook that was designed exactly for that purpose - DAB IP Tunnelling. Based on this transport system for IP datagrams via DAB, the provider BT Movio applied protocols and source coding algorithms designed by Microsoft. It should be noted that in the meantime all of these specifications (ASF and VC-1) are in public domain apart from one - WMA.

For more information on DAB-IP broadcasting, please read the comprehensive EBU article on the BT Movio trial in the UK: http://www.ebu.ch/fr/technical/trev/trev_306-movio.pdf