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Pure Highway New Firmware 1.5
lewiscolin
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Pure have released a new firmware for the Highway....
http://www.pure.com/Support/kb.asp?Product=VL-60905&FAQ=236
Version 1.5 apparently will allow you to upgrade to Dab+ but not in the UK...
When I downloaded the software the site had instructions on how to get a DAB+ activation code...This has since been removed and I've had the following emails from Pure...
[FONT="]Thank you for your e-mail[/FONT][FONT="]regarding problems with your DAB+ upgrade, we are still testing this process and am surprised that you managed to navigate through to the pages in the short time we were testing this.[/FONT]
[FONT="]We will be launching the DAB+ upgrade service soon and will of course advise you of it's availibility.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I apologise for the inconvenience caused.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]You can't unlock the DA+ features from with in the UK. There is no DAB+ to play in this country and every person that unlocks DAB+ software - we have to pay a royally and we're not paying royalties for people in the UK to unlock DAB+ when it's not available here. If you want to use your radio abroad in a country where DAB+ is being broadcast then you need to unlock the software from that country.[/FONT]
http://www.pure.com/Support/kb.asp?Product=VL-60905&FAQ=236
Version 1.5 apparently will allow you to upgrade to Dab+ but not in the UK...
When I downloaded the software the site had instructions on how to get a DAB+ activation code...This has since been removed and I've had the following emails from Pure...
[FONT="]Thank you for your e-mail[/FONT][FONT="]regarding problems with your DAB+ upgrade, we are still testing this process and am surprised that you managed to navigate through to the pages in the short time we were testing this.[/FONT]
[FONT="]We will be launching the DAB+ upgrade service soon and will of course advise you of it's availibility.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I apologise for the inconvenience caused.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]You can't unlock the DA+ features from with in the UK. There is no DAB+ to play in this country and every person that unlocks DAB+ software - we have to pay a royally and we're not paying royalties for people in the UK to unlock DAB+ when it's not available here. If you want to use your radio abroad in a country where DAB+ is being broadcast then you need to unlock the software from that country.[/FONT]
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...which is a situation that could have been avoided if the radio industry had collectively got behind open standards.
Had something like Ogg Vorbis been adapted for broadcast use rather than AAC+, anyone would be able to make the radios to pick it up without paying royalties to anyone.
http://www.pure.com/support/kb.asp?Product=VL-60905
I cannot get it to upgrade to v1.5 for some reason, it just sits there appearing to do nothing (on Win XP)
http://www.puredigital.com/dabplusOZ/upgrade.asp?Product=Highway
In this proxy
http://www.aussieproxy.info/
Fill in the details, ( you may have to set your country as austrialia). then on the next page when it loads, the key doesn't appear to be there, but if you look at the address bar your unlock key is the last bit in the aussie proxy.
Managed to unlock DAB+ on mine, not that it helps at the moment.
http://www.ultrareach.com/
I am about to purchase a Highway unit and plan on driving round Europe next year.
Does that mean it is already DAB+ ready or must I do something?
Any advice greatfully accepted.
Will be travelling through Europe early next year and again later in the year, so all I nned now are some Dab+ stations to test it.
In my upgrade, I don't ever recall having to enter a code.
Circumstances dictated that I couldn't travel.
Not sure when I will now. Could be as late as next Spring.
Noticed several countries watching how DAB+ is going and it will become more common across Europe! Germany said they will confirm if it's national DAB+ mux will go ahead in 2011 this month!
Just playing with a highway that has v1.1 on it. Is that similar to the fade on burble that I see listed? Also is there any point in upgrading to v1.5 (it's not mine) ?