Digital Radio Reception

Along with the navigation system and the phone, the radio is the most frequently used function in the infotainment system. Progress has lead to the introduction of digital radio. As well as the actual music, broadcasters now also transmit song titles, for example, and the names of artists, album covers and even the broadcaster's name in the form of a picture.

All this additional information (known as meta information or TAGS) can be used and displayed by the modular infotainment system depending on the particular version of the end user device. Along with the digital broadcasting standard, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), the enhanced standard DAB+ and Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) are also supported.

The following Information and data services can be transmitted via DAB:

• Text and image information to accompany a title (e.g. artist, title and album,...)
• Text and image information to accompany the broadcaster (e.g. broadcaster name)
• TMC/TPEG traffic information (see the glossary for an explanation of TMC/TPEG)

-- TMC = Traffic Message Channel

TPEG = Transport Protocol Experts Group

• News, weather, sports results
• Location-specific information such as parking information