Asian broadcasters attending this year’s International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) will get a chance to hear DRM broadcasts at a series of events hosted by the DRM consortium.

IBC is the leading global trade show for broadcasters and media professionals and attracts over 150,000 visitors every year from over 160 countries worldwide. 
It will be held from September 10 to 15 in Amsterdam.

DRM, the universal, openly standardised digital broadcasting system for all broadcasting frequencies, will hold DRM transmissions from September 10 to 13 from the UK, featuring BBC content.  

With four events and five hosting companies, DRM will introduce the rich features of the new commercial Indian receiver (from new Consortium member Avion Electronics), colour LCD with million colours, 10-12 hours of backup on single charging, x-HE-AAC audio coding, emergency warning, AFS, DRM text and scrolling messages.

Recent and exciting market developments in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America will feature large on all these days as well as innovative solutions for multi-standard receivers like the one in the sights of The Radio Hub, Norway.

DRM experts, broadcasters and manufacturers taking part in the show include Fraunhofer IIS on September 11 celebrating the first India made receiver, Avion, with the xHE-AAC audio codec and Journaline, Thomson Broadcast focusing on transmitters for alert systems on September 12 and a joint event on integrated transmission systems between Ampegnon and Transradio on September 13.

Other DRM members present at IBC are: Babcock International, GatesAir, RIZ Transmitters and RFmondial.

Ruxandra Obreja, the Consortium Chairman, says: “Last year we made an exciting announcement and we hope that 2015 IBC will be even better for all those interested in digital sound broadcasting technology. During IBC we hope to demonstrate that DRM is closing the loop between excellent transmitted sound with multimedia services on all frequency bands and reception on state of the art receiver.”