Robert Struble , IBiquity's president and chief executive, says the technology will be incorporated into digital AM and FM radio systems that should start showing up in six cities around the U.S.--including New York and Los Angeles by January.
There is no set date for the switchover from FM to digital radio although the government is keen for it to happen in 2015.
Ofcom is considering using the airwaves freed up when FM radio goes digital to provide rural broadband.
There's also an FM tuner, integrated digital voice recorder, a microSD memory card slot that can handle microSDHC cards up to 8GB in size, support for playback of MP3, WMA, and WAV audio files, and enough battery life for playback of at least 30 hours of audio and 6 hours of video.
All Freeview television channels, BBC Radio Bristol's 104.6 FM, national analogue, digital radio channels and mobile networks were affected.
Within five years, says Jeff Jury , Ibiquity vice president, analog AM and FM radio signals will go digital, and carry data over the air as well as traditonal audio signals.
Someone had to open up the U.S. West, invent FM radio and develop the American digital television recorder market.
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Despite this, the main radio stations will still be broadcast on FM and medium wave as usual while the digital stations - such as 1 Extra and BBC7 - will still be available on satellite, cable, through digital radios and online.
Like its predecessors, the MAS 102 offers CD playbacks, FM radio, and a host of analog and digital inputs to playback music from external devices.
The industry spent much of that time fighting over a plan to move FM and AM to a new spectrum band to accommodate digital.
But arriving so late in the US means that the newcomer will find a market where digital music consumers already have plenty of choice, from Pandora to last.fm, from Rdio to Rhapsody.
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