You can't listen to Radio 4 Extra in stereo on DAB (all but for the want of an extra 32 to 64kB/s)
It is however available in stereo on BBC sounds and via sat.
Given that 4Extra is the BBC's premier archive drama and comedy channel and much of the now broadcast output was originally made and broadcast in stereo, even binaural (especially important for drama), and that BBC radios 1,2 and 4 started broadcasting in stereo around 50 years ago (10 years earlier or more than that for Radio 3 and some regional stations), this was a very odd decision by the BBC, (originally made when 4Extra was Radio7).
I want to be able to listen in stereo on DAB, I don't want to be forced to use the internet to listen to (almost) contemporaneous radio.
P.S.
I appreciate this is only on topic here because of DAB transmitters but still I'm not going to let that deter me...
Saturday 23 September 2023 11:05PM
Straw poll time...Radio 4Extra in mono on DAB?
You can't listen to Radio 4 Extra in stereo on DAB (all but for the want of an extra 32 to 64kB/s)
It is however available in stereo on BBC sounds and via sat.
Given that 4Extra is the BBC's premier archive drama and comedy channel and much of the now broadcast output was originally made and broadcast in stereo, even binaural (especially important for drama), and that BBC radios 1,2 and 4 started broadcasting in stereo around 50 years ago (10 years earlier or more than that for Radio 3 and some regional stations), this was a very odd decision by the BBC, (originally made when 4Extra was Radio7).
I want to be able to listen in stereo on DAB, I don't want to be forced to use the internet to listen to (almost) contemporaneous radio.
P.S.
I appreciate this is only on topic here because of DAB transmitters but still I'm not going to let that deter me...