Exclusive interview with Lars Liljeryd!

In light of the press release from the new Digital Radio Sweden initiative, I decided to reach-out and here is the result! Lars Liljeryd, pioneer in the audio codec world, generously gave us some of his time and we have what I feel to be an excellent, in-depth interview of the man. Enjoy the interview, but wait around here only long enough to read it -  then whisk yourself off to Lars' own page of accomplishments! This guy ROCKS!

Christopher>>>
Lars, please give us some background about yourself. Tell us what you feel are your greatest accomplishments.

Lars>>>
I am a somewhat eccentric technologist and entrepreneur having worked in many areas from hydro acoustics and medtech to satellite technology. My biggest accomplishment is that I initiated the basic ideas of SBR (Spectral Band Replication) and PS (Parametric Stereo) that made the extremely efficient HE-AAC codec a reality and a worldwide success. This lead to a trade sale of my company "Coding Technologies" to Dolby Laboratories, a sale that created quite some international attention in 2007.

Sweden to test DRM30 at 20kHz on FM Broadcast Band

The Swedes are set to test DRM+ and DRM30 on the FM broadcast band, also known as VHF band II. They will run DRM30 in the 20kHz mode, alone and in simulcast. I'll be anxious to see how well it works for them. Full description here and press release here.