Originally Posted by disrember:
“I see that my local ensemble Sussex Coast has been relabeled Sussex. Presumably this is due to Horsham being added soon.”
I doubt it's got anything to do with Horsham specifically. It's because it is already county wide. Horsham is just another filler. Other multiplexes are being renamed to reflect their new coverage areas.
Originally Posted by
disrember:
“I have checked http://www.wohnort.org and it has the following
"August 9th
The UK regulator has authorised the services JACK and JACK 2 on the local ensemble Surrey-NSussex to switch to DAB+. "”
Interesting. Was hoping for a bit more than 40k. Especially with full rate sampling. Surely half rate would sound better at 40k.
Jack 2 isn't going to sound great at 32k.
Also interesting that Gregory Watson's rationale was to free up space for future services on a multiplex that's not yet full. Unless nobody wanted to actually say it's a mix of financial and taking DAB+ forward. Good in a way, given that Surrey covers much of London. This will be the first local service in London to carry DAB+.
I really enjoy Jack so I'm hoping it doesn't sound worse than the mono 80k service, which actually sounds pretty good compared to others at that bitrate.