Radio or not, here it comes
radio stations that sound almost as good as a compact disc could be with us soon. Broadcasters in Europe and Canada are already testing these high-quality digital broadcasts, but the special sets needed to receive them are so expensive that nobody is making them. Now, a British company has come up with a much cheaper device that turns an ordinary personal computer (pc) into a digital radio receiver.
Europe has adopted a common standard for Digital Audio Broadcasting (dab), as digital radio is officially known. Till now, designs for dab receivers have used expensive signal processing chips to decode broadcast data. A handful of companies have developed prototypes of in-car digital radios, but at expected prices of around