Tuesday, April 21, 2009

DRM makes its presence felt at NAB, 2009

Las Vegas, April 21st 2009: The DRM Consortium and its members have organised several activities to display the best of DRM technology and equipment at National Association of Broadcasting Exhibition in Las Vegas this year. From new DRM radios to first commercial equipment for DRM+, the visitors will find an exciting and entertaining DRM offer at NAB.

DRM panel discussion on 21st April 2009 at 3 pm

The DRM Consortium will hold an exclusive, high-level panel discussion at NAB on the subject "DRM is here - wide coverage, low costs, digital quality". The discussion will include presentations about DRM benefits, features, receivers, transmitters and systems specifications and will be followed by a Q&A session. The panellists are Ruxandra Obreja (DRM Chair and Controller Business Development, BBC World Service) Michel Penneroux (Head of AM Broadcasting, TDF, France), Dan Dickey (President, Continental Electronics Corp.), Alexander Zink (Broadcast Applications, Fraunhofer IIS), Lindsay Cornell (Principal Systems Architect, BBC), Darko Cvjetko (General Manager, RIZ Transmitters Co), Christian Hörlle, (Project Manager Digital Radio, Transradio SenderSysteme Berlin AG). After the discussion, a drinks reception has been organised for the participants, DRM Consortium's top experts and other leading players in the international radio market. The discussion and drinks will take place at the Continental Electronics booth N7007 (located at the main entrance to North Hall 3) from 3 pm to 6pm on Tuesday, 21st April.

DRM hour every day at NAB

DRM officials will be present at the Continental booth N7007 EVERYDAY at 3.30 pm from Monday to Thursday (April 20th-23rd 2009) to share information and discuss DRM roll-out plans. DRM receivers will also be on display including the latest DRM receiver called 'Di- Wave 100', developed by Uniwave Development SAS. This is the first DRM receiver with colour screen that will be in mass production by summer 2009. The receiver has all the multimedia features offered by DRM technology including identification by station name, programme information, Journaline, MOT Slideshow and listening time shift. The radio can receive DRM broadcasts in SW, MW and LW as well as analogue FM and can store 768 stations in its memory. The receiver also has a USB/SD card-reader and mp3/mp4 play-back.

First commercial grade DRM+ transmission system demonstrated at NAB

Three prominent manufacturers will present the world's first commercial grade DRM+ live transmission system at NAB. Fraunhofer's DRM+ ContentServerT, RFmondial's DRM+ Modulator and Nautel's DRM+ Exciter are combined to produce a live signal at Nautel's booth N7016. The demonstration includes a real-time encoded audio program with surround option, DRM text messages, textual information service Journaline®, and full DRM+ signaling.

Other DRM exhibitors at NAB include:

DIGIDIA will showcase its DRM/DRM+ Chorus family with its Alto DRM/DRM+ Content Server, its Soprano DRM/DRM+ Exciter with its DRMCore OEM version and its Opus 26MHz 250W Transmitter on the French Pavilion in North hall booth N1737.

TRANSRADIO Sender Systeme Berlin AG will bring the new DRM DMOD3 complete system with all necessary features for DRM broadcasting in the AM bands. The DRM DMOD3 offers highly automated configuration procedures, maximum reliability, low power consumption, low operating temperature and a compact and ergonomic design. The system will be on display on booth N9112.

About DRM and DRM+
Digital Radio MondialeTM (DRM) is the digital broadcasting system for the broadcasting bands below 30MHz (long, medium and short wave). DRM has near-FM sound quality plus the ease-of-use that comes from digital transmissions, combined with long range and low power consumption. DRM+ uses the same audio coding, data services, multiplexing and signaling schemes as the established part of the DRM standard for short, medium and long wave up to 30 MHz, but operates in higher frequencies between 30 and 174 MHz (including the broadcasting bands Band I and Band II). The DRM Consortium has completed the technical development of DRM+. The technology enhancement to the DRM system specification is currently in the ETSI standardization process.
For more information and DRM updates please visit www.drm.org

(DRM Consortium Press Release)

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