NRI I-RADIO
Radio platforms " quick comparison "
Comparison of Radios, showing some important features.
| Features
|
DAB | Internet radio | Radio via digital TV |
| Number of stations | 35 (on average) | 10,000+ | 30 (Freeview) - 120 (satellite) |
| Range of choice | Very poor | Excellent | Poor |
| Audio quality now | Poor | Very good | Average / good |
| Audio quality in future | Same or lower | Higher | Same |
| On-demand content available | No | Yes | No |
| Age of technology | 1980s | State-of-the-art | 1990s |
| Interactivity/personalisation | No | Yes | No |
| Video/pictures/text | Limited | Unlimited | Limited / no |
Above information shows that, Internet Radio is the future Radio. (DRT)
History of Internet Radio
Internet radio started out in the nineties as the wild west then it went to war with the protectors of the old guard music industry and had to reinvent itself. Now in the 2000s, it is poised to become a powerful medium for peopleto learn about any kind of music. The term internet radio has grown to mean several things. It can be as radio-like as a program streamed live on the internet or it can be an archive site with on-demand music files. It can simply be a terrestrial radio station's broadcast to
History of Internet
The Internet was the result of some visionary thinking by people in the early 1960s who saw great potential value in allowing computers to share information on research and development in scientific and military fields. J.C.R. Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
History of the Computer
In The Beginning…
The history of computers starts out about 2000 years ago, at the birth of the abacus, a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung on them. When these beads are moved around, according to programming rules memorized by the user, all regular arithmetic problems can be done. Another important invention around the same time was the Astrolabe, used for navigation. Blaise Pascal is usually credited for building the first digital computer in 1642. It added numbers entered with dials
History of Radio
Radio owes its development to two other inventions, the telegraph and the telephone, all three technologies are closely related. Radio technology began as "wireless telegraphy".
Radio can refer to either the electronic appliance that we listen with or the content listened to. However, it all started with the discovery of "radio waves" - electromagnetic waves