Posted on 12/30/2016 3:56:02 PM PST by Olog-hai
In just a matter of weeks, Norway will tune out FM radio for good and become the world’s first country to switch over to digital-only transmissions.
Norway's government has decided that the nation’s FM airwaves will fall silent from January 11, 2017, starting in Nordland and gradually moving south.
After nearly a century of the analog system, which revolutionized music listening with high-fidelity stereo sound compared to mono AM transmissions, the changeover to Digital Audio Broadcasting’s advanced version (DAB+) will render the country’s almost eight million radio sets obsolete.
Although it has been in the works for years, most Norwegians aren’t pleased with the move. Two out of three are opposed to the switchover, according to an Ipsos survey released by Dagbladet on Wednesday. Only 17 percent support sounding the death knell for FM radio. …
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How will they listen to a-Ha now?
So what’s to stop someone from broadcasting on the wide open fm bands?
It’s not like they’d be interfering with commercial stations.
There is no longer a stagecoach, but we still have horses. They are throwing away the baby with the bath water.
Norwegian Black Metal probably doesn’t get broadcast there.
It’s similar technology, but DAB apparently has lower audio quality and isn’t approved by the FCC.
But, but that’s the radio waves the Martians are using.
I see your reference to a-Ha....
a-Ha - Take On Me (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
And raise a reference to Na-Na “Ha-Ha - Shlapa”
Ha-Ha. “The hat.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJNknzmVuIM
FM is how Kirk jammed the bad guys in Star Trek Beyond with “Beastie Boys - Sabotage”.
The only other Norwegian song I know.
Ylvis - What Does the Fox Say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
Would I be insensitive if I suggested that the DAB+ makes it easier to hear the Muslim ‘Call to Prayer’? Don’t know if that is true but given the encroachment, who knows?
No static at all.
Don’t forget Norwegians, the government knows what’s best for you.
I certainly hope that’s the WORST of Norway pop.
I'd be willing to bet that the Norwegian people have been voting for Socialist government forever.
Works of art all.
Most of those look like they are from the 1950s.
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