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To: Mark Palmberg who wrote (2616)	5/10/1998 9:43:00 PM
From: BamaReb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

Not sure if this has been posted....... (UPDATE) Lucent, CBS Venture To Test Digital-Radio Technology This Fall Dow Jones Online News, Friday, May 08, 1998 at 13:08 NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- USA Digital Radio, a technology concern partially owned by broadcaster CBS Corp., and telecommunications-equipment giant Lucent Technologies Inc. Friday said they will begin field tests this fall of a format for switching the radio industry to digital broadcasting. The two companies have been developing the so-called In-Band On Channel, or IBOC, technology, one of a few different formats for digital audio broadcasting. USA Digital and Lucent claim IBOC allows broadcasters to use current frequency allocations to simultaneously transmit analog and digital signals. USA Digital also said it granted contracts to Fraunhofer Institut for Integrierte Schaltungen and Bittware Research Systems to develop audio-compression technology and hardware prototypes. USA Digital moved its development and testing activities to a facility in Columbia, Md. Earlier versions of IBOC and other formats fared poorly in field tests. USA Digital Radio and Lucent have said their system, which fits the digital signal within the spectrum used by existing AM and FM stations, will be a leading contender when the Federal Communications Commission authorizes digital radio broadcasting in the next few years. Various camps are racing to develop a system that offer consumers CD-quality sound without compelling them to hunt for stations. Some groups are focusing on satellite-based systems that would operate in extremely high frequencies. The FCC has appeared bullish on the technology backed by USA Digital and Lucent but have been waiting for full-scale testing. USA Digital has been working on IBOC since 1990. Murray Hill, N.J.-based Lucent is contributing chip-based audio technology developed by its famed Bell Laboratories research arm. Specifically, Bell Labs has developed a so-called perceptual audio coder, a device that uses algorithms based on extensive research of human perception to achieve audio compression. Copyright (c) 1998 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.