Monday, September 10, 2012

The Digital Dashboard


There was a great round-table discussion with Paul Jacobs regarding the future of radio and the digital dashboard. Radio is getting nervous by the carmakers who is considering the discontinuation of FM radio dials in the car. The digital dashboard will have a app-like screen for radio listening. Jacobs did stress the importance of HD radio in the car and how all-new models will have build HD radio in the car. Meanwhile, the aggregators like TuneIN, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Spotify and more scare radio as they could be the sole-radio listening experience in the car. Major app companies are looking to carmakers on how they can develop for the digital dashboard. Radio needs to start thinking about this because it’s the future in a few years.

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