D&M Holdings signed a license agreement with iBiquity Digital to ...
D&M Holdings signed a license agreement with iBiquity Digital to use HD Radio in the Denon and Marantz lines of home receivers, it was announced Tues. D&M is the 16th CE company licensed by iBiquity to develop HD Radio…
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products in the U.S., iBiquity said. Meanwhile, the National Radio Systems Committee (NRSC) has told the FCC that iBiquity’s 3rd-generation ("Gen 3") hardware “performs similarly” to previous versions of the system that it evaluated in 2001 and 2002. IBIQUITY’s Gen 3 systems “are functionally equivalent” to earlier versions “in essentially all respects except for the audio codec employed,” the NRSC told the Commission. Gen 1 systems used an MPEG-2-based AAC perceptual audio codec, while Gen 3 hardware uses a proprietary iBiquity codec called HDC and used in all commercial HD Radio equipment, the NRSC said. IBiquity converted to the new codec last summer after audio quality artifacts emerged in the AM band.