Visteon Promotes Digital Radio Mondiale for Automotive Applications
September 02 2005 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
KERPEN, Germany, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Through a collaborative
project with the RTL Group, Europe's leading broadcasting and
production company, Visteon Corporation (NYSE:VC) will demonstrate
an in-vehicle Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) receiver at the IFA
World of Consumer Electronics Show in Berlin, Sept. 2-7. The
Visteon DRM, FM & AM CD-Tuner will be on display at the DRM
Automotive Digital Radio booth (hall 5.2a - stand 102). (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001201/DEF008LOGO ) With
support of the RTL Group, Visteon has contributed its audio and
infotainment expertise to develop a modified radio receiver for DRM
signal reception. The RTL Group is one of the key members of the
Digital Radio Mondiale consortium. The introduction of Digital
Radio Mondiale will enable broadcasters to continue moving radio
technology from analog to digital format, increasing sound and
content quality. As a key benefit of DRM, consumers will be able to
receive broadcasts in their homes and cars. DRM is designed to
deliver a noise- and hiss-free sound quality, substantially
improved over conventional analog radio. Most importantly for
drivers, as already demonstrated in test drives, DRM can generally
deliver excellent reception results in vehicles, even at high
speeds. "Digital Radio Mondiale is already aired in more than 30
countries with broadcast members from all six continents," said
Gerhard Zeiler, RTL Group's chief executive officer. "Many
broadcasters have committed to the DRM format including RTL Group
stations." Linda Rivers Bell, Visteon's electronics product
strategy and planning director, points out that Visteon's
infotainment and sound management capabilities are well established
in the automotive industry, "We are prepared to deliver automotive
grade DRM solutions, whenever the market is ready." Visteon
designs, tests and engineers sound systems for the automotive
environment that accurately reproduce sound across all broadcast
standards. Visteon is already supplying HD Radio/In-Band On-Channel
(IBOC) modules and Satellite Radio Systems in North America, as
well as Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) modules in Europe. "As a
strong supporter of new technologies, we consider DRM a
complementary technology to the existing digital radio standards,"
says Bell. The first DRM receivers will be available immediately
following the IFA consumer show as tabletop radios able to receive
DRM, DAB, FM and AM bands. Portable radios are expected to follow
in 2006 and the market is expecting the first automotive solutions
to follow thereafter. About Digital Radio Mondiale The DRM
consortium formed in March 1998, when a small group of pioneering
broadcasters and manufacturers joined forces to create a universal,
digital system for the broadcasting bands below 30 MHz. DRM is the
world's only, non- proprietary digital radio system for short-wave,
AM/medium-wave and long-wave. DRM currently covers the broadcasting
bands below 30 MHz, the DRM consortium voted in March 2005 to begin
the process of extending the system to broadcasting bands up to 120
MHz. The design, development and testing phases are expected to be
completed in the 2007-2009 time frame. The quality of DRM audio is
considered excellent, and the improvement upon analog AM is
immediately noticeable. Unlike digital systems that require a new
frequency allocation, DRM uses existing AM broadcast frequency
bands. DRM applications will include fixed and portable radios, car
receivers, software receivers and PDAs. Broadcasters supporting DRM
include Deutsche Welle and Sudwestrundfunk (SWR) in Germany, RTL
Group stations, BBC World Service, Radio France and Voice of
America, to name only a few. See http://www.drm.org/ for more
information. About RTL Group RTL Group is Europe's leading
commercial broadcaster, with interests in 31 television channels
and 33 radio stations in 10 countries and content production
throughout the world. Its television portfolio includes RTL
Television in Germany, M6 in France, Five in the UK, and the RTL
channels in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Croatia and
Hungary, as well as Antena 3 in Spain and TVI in Portugal. RTL
Group's flagship radio station is RTL in France. In addition, it
also owns or has interests in other stations in France, Germany,
Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Luxembourg. RTL
Group's content production arm, FremantleMedia is one of the
largest international producers outside the U.S. It is currently
producing more than 260 programs in over 40 countries including the
U.S., providing a wide range of drama, entertainment and factual
programming for viewers around the world. About Visteon Visteon is
the second largest manufacturer worldwide of factory-installed
audio systems to the automotive industry; the company also supplies
leading- edge in-vehicle audio and infotainment solutions to both
automotive manufacturers and the automotive aftermarket. Visteon
was first-to-market with the integration of Bluetooth(R) wireless
and voice technology. The company is also leading in Satellite
Radio Systems and was voted best-in-class for several of its family
in-car entertainment systems, including the portable Dockable Media
Player and the terrestrial Digital Video Broadcasting tuner
DigiTune(TM) DVB-T M1. Visteon Corporation is a leading,
full-service supplier that delivers consumer-driven technology
solutions to automotive manufacturers worldwide and through
multiple channels within the global automotive aftermarket. Visteon
has about 70,000 employees and a global delivery system of more
than 200 technical, manufacturing, sales and service facilities
located in 24 countries.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001201/DEF008LOGO DATASOURCE:
Visteon Corporation CONTACT: UK & Northern Europe: Vivien
Ronco, (+44) 1268-701234, , Germany & Eastern Europe: Britta
Lange, (+49) 2273-595-2667, , or France & Southern Europe:
Dolores Muniz, (+49) 2273-595-2828, , all of Visteon Corporation
Web site: http://www.visteon.com/ http://www.drm.org/
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