Digital radio takes off in UK
p2pnet.net News:- Britain’s Digital Radio Development Bureau reckons 13,000,000 digital radios will be sold in the UK by the end of 2008, and 1,200%, and DAB digital radio penetration will have reached 29% of British homes.
In its Five-Year DAB Digital Radio Forecast, DRDB chairman Ralph Bernard says as DAB digital radio edges closer to mass-market penetration, "and the government moots the possibility of analogue switch-off, the DRDB Board feels the time is right to publish this market forecast".
The annual market value in 2008 is expected to be almost £500 million across all product segments, says the organizatiion, continuing that the 2004 market value is expected to be around £90 million for an increase of 448%.
The biggest growth is expected to come in products such as boomboxes, hi-fi systems and clock radios, with sales of new ‘memory radios’ also expected to grow over the five-year period, says the DRBD.
One of the biggest stories to emerge over the next few years will be an increase in the number of people listening to DAB digital radio in their cars largely because of an increase in factory line-fit by major car manufacturers which will grow from 3,000 units in 2004 to 645,000 units in 2008, predicts the DRDB.
Naturally, Big Music is gearing up to do its best to put the boot in.
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See:-
1,200% - UK Digital Radio sales set to boom, Digital Radio Development Bureau, October 7, 2004
boot – Rewind, digital radio?, p2pnet, June 11, 2004
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