Digital Radio Mondiale, a Better Standard Than US-Adopted IBOC?

Gsparky2004 writes "Over at Engineering Radio, Paul suggests that Digital Radio Mondiale (or 'Digital Radio Worldwide') may be a better alternative than the US-adopted, proprietary IBOC system. But he's concerned that the FCC is too far down the 'IBOC is the way!' road and won't accept an open source alternative, even one that may work better." For a slightly more pointed take on the matter, check out this anti-IBOC site, which paints IBOC as something akin to the devil himself.

Re:What a strange name choice.

[TheRaven64]

Yup, a French name and the acronym is DRM. It's like they were intentionally trying to make sure it had no adoption in the US.

NIH

[overshoot]

This is America, damnit! We set the standards. None of this foreign stuff for us like GSM, the metric system, or any of that other crap that will never make it in the market.