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Whether or not DRM proves to be a success or failure in international
broadcasting depends on how you define success.
So far it appears those broadcasters who are behind DRM and who have
launched these test transmissions appear to be in DRM for several years, at
least through the end of the decade.
Keep in mind that DRM is highly visible to us listeners because DRM
cohabitates with analog shortwave. IMHO this is a flawed approch -- the
ITU should set aside a part of the SWBC band just for DRM transmissions.
If DRM were operating outside the bands for analog shortwave, it would be
treated as more of a utility transmission (some might even classify it that way)
and we wouldn't be watching its every move with a mix of apprehension and
anticipation.
It is rare that product development is carried out on as highly public a
stage as DRM has been carried out.
John is right, though -- each day's delay in launching an "affordable" DRM
consumer receiver means another day's dissipation in the hype that has built up
over the vision and future of DRM...which will probably slow the eventual
adoption rate by listeners (and broadcasters).
Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA
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