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I thought a few people might be interested in this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8200090/Radio-3-begins-HD-broadcasts.html
[size=1.2em] Technology News[/size]
BBC Radio 3 will be playing better music tomorrow morning – the Corporation’s classical station has become the first in the UK to broadcast full time in so-called “high definition sound”.
The improvements in audio quality are achieved by increasing the “bit rate” of the broadcast signal. Radio 3 is already broadcast at the highest quality of any BBC radio station, transmitted at 192 kbit per second. The new HD standard, however, uses 320 kbit/s. Audio on a CD is approximately 1400 kbit/s, but compression technologies for digital audio mean that 320 kbit/s is considered to be sufficient by many audiophiles.
[size=1.2em] Technology News[/size]
BBC Radio 3 will be playing better music tomorrow morning – the Corporation’s classical station has become the first in the UK to broadcast full time in so-called “high definition sound”.
The improvements in audio quality are achieved by increasing the “bit rate” of the broadcast signal. Radio 3 is already broadcast at the highest quality of any BBC radio station, transmitted at 192 kbit per second. The new HD standard, however, uses 320 kbit/s. Audio on a CD is approximately 1400 kbit/s, but compression technologies for digital audio mean that 320 kbit/s is considered to be sufficient by many audiophiles.