Digital Broadcasting Information Service "Journaline" first time demonstrated on DRM

Digital Broadcasting Information Service "Journaline" First Time Demonstrated on Digital Radio Mondiale as part of a Multiplatform Implementation at Olympic Games 2008. To support the increased information need at the 2008 Summer Olympics in China, the new text-based Digital Radio information service "Journaline" delivers added value to the listener. Integrated into selected Audi shuttle vehicles used in Beijing, this service provides passengers and drivers with up-to-date information in the form of a "sports and news ticker". Interested members of the DRM Consortium and friends of Digital Radio Mondiale are welcome to try out the service in an Audi VIP car in Beijing in the week 2008-08-09 until 2008-08-15. Detailed information like the event location is available under www.journaline.info. Journaline resembles the functionality of an electronic magazine or teletext on a TV set. It allows users to interactively access radio accompanying information, or to follow the self-updating scores of interesting matches either in the car (including text-to-speech presentation) or with carry-on radio receivers focusing on textual presentation. Journaline was internationally standardized with ETSI by the WorldDMB Forum. The service is currently broadcasted as part of DAB/DMB and DRM digital radio transmissions; however, the application is suitable for virtually any broadcast platform. The development focused on simple re-use of a broadcaster's existing information sources, efficient low-bitrate transmission, and easy integration in any digital radio receciver class. Through a hierarchical topic structure, users are able to browse the received information, which may comprise both programrelated and program-independent textual information. Favorite topics can be stored as bookmarks. The Journaline project partners include Audi, Fraunhofer IIS, Thomson, NXP, Atmel, Microtune, and BBC.
(DRM Press Release)