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Commercial Radio Australia has officially announced its intention to use the newly standardised DAB+ for its roll-out of digital radio services on 1 January 2009. DAB+ implements AAC+ as the audio compression codec, a far more modern technology which is an extension of the MPEG4 Advanced Audio Codec currently found in Apple's iTunes, iPods and other digital music players. 'Better-than-FM' quality audio can be compressed into as little as 64 kilobits per second, compared with around 160kbps for the earlier DAB standard. Bathurst Broadcasters as wtih FM are keenly anticipating the introduction of digital radio in regional areas such as Bathurst. |