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Originally Posted by SeeMoreDigital
Here in the UK all BBC radio stations and many major commercial radio stations still use basic DAB (MPEG-1 Layer 2)!
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OMG! MP2?! Really?
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Originally Posted by SeeMoreDigital
The adoption of DAB+ (HE-AAC) has been very slow and sloppy here, primarily due to the quantity of early DAB radio adoptees who's devices don't support DAB+...
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I see...
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Originally Posted by hello_hello
Today's youth.... no idea how good they have it. 
When I was young and going to school, my portable music player looked very much like this:
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LOL "portable" xD
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Originally Posted by hello_hello
Mind you that's way more fancy than the one I owned because FM radio didn't exist and the Cue function was, if I remember correctly, a manually implemented feature involving holding the play button half way down while fast-forwarding and hoping it wouldn't end in tears.
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FM didn't exist? (O_O)
Wow... I think about FM as something that has always been there... You guys must have been amazed by the sound quality when you moved from LW and MW to AM and FM ehehehehehehe
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Originally Posted by Blue_MiSfit
H.264 hardware decode is utterly commonplace on any device shipped in the last decade.
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Exactly, which is why I find very odd the fact that some devices still don't have it...
I mean, we're here talking about H.266 VVC getting ready soon-ish and there are people still encoding in XVID... It definitely makes you wonder...