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Date: 2000-08-08
WorldSpace: Digitales SATradio gegen Zensur-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- sowie der anderswo beliebten, noch neueren MP3 Kompression ist eine neue Form des guten alten Radios entstanden, die den Zensoren nicht-demokratisch regierten Staaten durchaus Kopfzerbrechen bereiten kann. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- A satellite radio service could help beat the censors THE BBC last week took the first steps towards preventing its World Service radio broadcasts being jammed or switched off by governments or rebels that don't like its message. The corporation has signed up to a digital satellite radio service called WorldSpace, which will deliver a hard-to-jam signal from space to a new generation of digital receivers. The BBC hopes the deal will prevent a rerun of what happened during the Kosovo conflict, when Serb troops quickly put local World Service transmitters out of action. It also wants to get its news programmes into countries such as Burma and Iraq, whose governments ban local relays and jam short-wave broadcasts from outside. "In any coup the rebels aim for the media," says Mike Whittaker of the World Service. "WorldSpace has such a huge footprint that we can transmit a high- quality signal over a wide area." World Service spokeswoman Gill Webber adds: "We are keeping hold of the short-wave services but are using WorldSpace because they are not under the control of local governments." ... Ethiopian lawyer Noah Samara, who calls the BBC deal "a historic milestone", set up WorldSpace in 1990 with the idea of using satellite technology to broadcast to "information- poor" countries in the developing world. He has raised $1.1 billion for the project from unnamed investors, and has already launched two of the three geostationary satellites the service needs. The third is due to be launched next year. Each satellite has three beams, and the beams all carry 96 channels of audio coded using the MP3 sound-compression system that's used to send music over the Internet. Voll text http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_225056.html -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- relayed by Andrew Shen <shen@epic.org> -.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 2000-08-08 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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