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The advantages offered by digital transmission are clear and plain: crystal clear sound and free of all interferences. Add to that additional information and services from the stations, which cannot be received on FM. This information is broadcast parallel to the radio program using images and sound. It offers not just title and artist. It also transmits tour dates, information about current CDs or program information. These program-associated data services (PAD) are fully utilized by DR Box 1.

And, of course, a PC connection offers a series of additional options: Program-related and independent information are presented in HTML format. The connection of a PC enables the user to receive different stations at the same time. This allows for recording, while listening to a different station. Not only can radio programs received be recorded in analog form as usual, the TerraTec DR Box 1 also records it in real time as WAV or MP2 file and stores it on the hard disk. Recording radio programs can also be started automatically using the convenient timer function of the DR Box 1 software. By the way: the radio program can be recorded in compressed form as MP3 using the bundled MusicMatch Jukebox software and immediately edited using Wavelab Lite-e.g. cutting.

Using the additional data that are broadcast directly with the radio program, it is possible to implement "viewing radio." The add-on modules may consist of graphics (e.g. from a web cam in a station's studio), dynamic label (similar to the well-known RDS radio text) and additional multimedia data formats like HTML contents. On top of that, contents of non-program-associated data (NPAD) are received and displayed in form of HTML pages-such as guides to regional events, weather forecast or stock exchange data.

Heiko Meertz, General Manager of TerraTec Electronic, considers the future of digital radio to be very positive: "By now, the digital radio standard has spread throughout the world. Even Germany, where regulated operation currently exists, is expected to have 95% coverage in three years. And in a few years, FM will be turned off and replaced by this standard."

Technical details:

• Reception of Digital Radio (DAB mode I, II, III and IV)
• Interference-free and crystal-clear reception, CD-comparable audio quality
• Real time recording of DAB audio as WAV audio and MP2
• Simultaneous recording/playback of radio programs within the same ensemble
• Time-controlled audio recording
• Larger program selection
• Analog and digital (for audio and RDI) output
• 24 station memories
• Real time recording without losses as WAV and MP2
• Parallel data reception
• Optical digital output for audio and data
• PAD program-associated data services
• NPAD non-program-associated data services
• Support of MOT 2.4 (Multimedia Object Transfer Protocol)
• Frequency ranges:
  - VHF band III: 174-240 MHz
  - L band: 1452-1492 MHz

Press contact person:                      Christoph Müllers
                                                               Phone.: +49 (0)2157 8179-18
                                                               Fax: +49 (0)2157 8179-22
                                                               e-mail: presse@terratec.de
                                                               Internet: www.terratec.net

TerraTec Electronic GmbH is the largest German sound card manufacturer with company seat in Nettetal (Lower Rhine). Furthermore, the company also operates in the sectors TV/video cards, MP3 CD player, DigitalRadio and additional multimedia products. It established a new standard with EWS technology. TerraTec currently operates 65 employees, and realized revenues of approximately 22 million Euro in the last fiscal year. Selling agencies are presently operating in the US, Asia, Great Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Spain, Italy, France and East Europe/CIS.