Microsoft joins digital audio group
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft is continuing to take the standards route to further spread its multimedia prowess. On Thursday, the software maker said it is joining the World DAB Forum, an industry group engaged in developing digital audio broadcasting technology, to help promote devices and services based on DAB's digital radio standard.
The forum, whose members include broadcasters and audio gear makers, is working to push the adoption of digital radio globally, aiming to achieve commercial success for the DAB transport mechanism. In addition to the promise of distortion-free audio, digital radio technology could also let broadcasters offer new services like the delivery of text, data, pictures and video over radio waves.