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Old 21-11-2006, 05:27 PM
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DAB energy consumption

I can't find much info about this but my other half read a feature in a hi-fi magazine that said Digital signal requires twice as much energy as analogue. Apparently no maker's user manual tells you how much energy your digital radio for example is using. We are all expected to switch to digital in the next few years however most of Europe are unhappy about this because they feel the quality is poor and they're not promoting digital as much as Briatin. Digital uses 128 kbps this is something like a 5th of what FM uses. As I said I can't find the exact details of this but was wondering how aware people were of this?
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