[BC] Death of portable radio

[Ernie Belanger]

Interestering point.

A few years ago I had a short discussion with Glynn Walden at the Radio 
Show.  We spoke about the problem with DRM on shortwave being the battery 
life of the receivers.

He discussed how in some countries the poor villagers use nearly half their 
money for a battery once a year to run their radios and with the digital 
radio receiver battery life would be cut to a week Vs. a year.

I never thought about the portables here.

Perhaps we could get a better feel for them if we could get a feel for how 
long the micro sized MP3 players run on a battery.

Ernie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clive Warner" <clive at citiria.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:49 AM
Subject: [BC] Death of portable radio


>> Then read this one by Jonathon Hardis of NIST, who, unlike Microsoft,
>> has no dog in this race:
>>
>>
> http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_documen
> t=6518010460
>>
>> This is a tremendous piece of work that eclipses all the other filings
>> on NRSC-5, and yet the online radio mags haven't even mentioned it.
>> I wonder why...
>
> This one (above) raises an issue I hadn't even considered.
> I had noted for a while now, on another list, people complaining about the
> fact there are no portable DAB receivers, only mains-operated models.
> (Costing from $90 upwards)
> It's my impression that the big 'boom years' in radio were a direct result
> of the low-cost 'transistor radio' arriving on the scene.
> Now how the hell are you going to be able to get a tiny Walkman type of
> receiver viable with Digital technology, guys, running off a pair of AAA
> cells? How long is *that* going to take?
> In other words IBOC = the loss of all 'portable' radio. Your audience is
> going to disappear!
> - Clive
>
>
>
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