In 2018 WorldCast Systems in Bordeaux announced two RDS2 innovations.
- FM MC5, a multipurpose measuring equipment for analysis and with full RDS2 capabilities.
- The new RDS MPX encoder with full RDS2 functionality compliant with the new RDS standard IEC 62106-1 to 6, such as with dead wood deleted, the upper streams with C-type groups and the Long PS using UTF-8 character coding, all included for a price in the order of magnitude of the previous RDS encoder version. A simple replacement can be done, plug and play.
In 2023, the Audemat RDS decoder was still only RDS2 ready. This means that it had not yet fully implemented the new version of UECP as standardized in IEC 62106-10. Potential users of RDS2 were waiting for this obstacle to be removed soon.
The RDS Forum looked forward to announcing soon, and still during 2023, that such a very important and essential innovation had happened.
RX014 monitor and analyser
From MacBe in the Netherlands it was possible to obtain a USB stick, the RX014, a receiver that is a universal RDS/RDS2 data monitor and analyser with associated software for Windows.
