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Broadband TV News reports that the German Bundesrat (upper house) has decided there should be no mandatory standard for mobile TV broadcasts. This point of view is at odds with the European Commission, which wants to make adoption of the DVB-H standard compulsory. Next year, a consortium of cellcos O2, Vodafone and T-Mobile plan to launch a nationwide DVB-H service in the country, but at present mobile TV provider Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland (MFD) already offers a commercial service using the DMB standard in some parts of the country. The Bundesrat also warned that such regulatory measures from Brussels could interfere with the free flow of information, the plurality of the media and cultural diversity.

Pure has raised over £6000 for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association from the sale of its SONUS-1XT DAB digital radios.

Pure presents Chronos II, the enhanced follow-up to Chronos, part of the UK’s best selling DAB clock radio family.

EtherWaves has teamed up with Broadcast leader, Factum Electronics AB, to demonstrate multistandard Digital Radio live at IBC, Amsterdam.

Live DAB+ transmissions will be taking place during the IBC conference/exhibition using customer-ready transmission equipment and receivers.

Technology trends in DAB, A plus for DAB in Switzerland, Netherlands tests DMB, DMB in Malaysia,...

The PURE Chronos iDock is a combined DAB digital clock radio and iPod® docking system enabling users to wake up to DAB digital radio, FM, a simple tone alarm or a favourite iPod track.

PURE Digital is making an on-going commitment to the environment with EcoPlus™, a radical change to the way PURE’s leading DAB products are designed, manufactured and presented.

Solutions incorporating Frontier Silicon’s multi-standard digital radio SoC Chorus 2 with Fraunhofer’s audio decoder IP are being designed into products from specialist brands including Bush, Grundig, Magicbox, Ministry of Sound, Pure, Revo, Tivoli and others, which will be available in shops by the end of this year.

Market-leading DAB technology company, Frontier Silicon, and Fraunhofer IIS, worldwide experts in audio coding, have teamed up with tier one audio manufacturers to deliver the world’s first range of DAB+ radios.