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Migration from Analogue to Digital

• What about Digital Radio?

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Our station has gone digital.

• Digital technology in the broadcasting house
• the migration is going on since ten years
• the state of migration is very diverse
• the new digital equipment is often less
  professional than the old analogue
• there is no way back

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Our station has gone digital.

• Digital technologies for broadcasting
• the technologies are there since almost 10 years
  (DAB, DRM, Worldspace)
• except for some European countries they have not
  yet been introduced at a large scale due to lack
  of low-cost receivers
• only the strong initiative of some countries with
  a large population (China, India) can trigger off
  cheap digital radios

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The Digital Broadcasting House
Do you have a digital broadcasting house if you
use CD players?
CD
DAT
MiniDisc
What comes next?
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The Digital Broadcasting House

• There will be no new dedicated digital audio
  technology any more!
• In future all sound program production and
  storage will depend on computer technologies.

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Digital Reporter Equipment
To take full advantage of computerized audio
editing facilities, the reporter equipment must
adapt to the new technologies.
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Digital Reporter Equipment
Flash recorders

• professional recorders
• good sound quality
• good integration into computerized production
  environment
• expensive recorders
• expensive storage media
• no big choice of recorders

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Digital Reporter Equipment
MP3 players have become popular at an incredibly
fast pace. Most MP3 players can also record!

• small and handy
• relatively cheap
• perfect integration into computerized production
  environment
• include an FM radio (or even DAB!)
• voice recording feature meant as notepad
• mostly no microphone input
• no manual level control
• no professional recorders available
• currently a difficult choice

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New Challenges New Opportunities

• New technologies require new production methods
• they are not just substitutes for analogue
  technologies
• New technologies offer opportunities for new
  program formats
• be creative, try new things
• (before others do it)