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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: A-B Tests - Whither digital audio, really...
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Date: Fri, 17-May-85 17:47:30 EDT
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In article <1666@ittvax.UUCP> schachte@ittvax.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
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>But when do we get digital radio?  It might take a tremendous
>bandwidth to get sufficient error-correction coding, but it would be
>worth it for hissless sound.  And maybe some signal-compression
>techniques could be used.

Hey, how about taking over some of the TELEVISION channels?  They would
allow a bit rate comparable to the CD, wouldn't they?  And good-quality
audio is certainly a better use of the spectrum than most of what is
on TV these days.  :-)