NPR's 'Stunning' HD Radio Collection
So, you're all interested in getting into HD Radio, you click on "HD Radio" on NPR's website, and here's what you get. One stinking receiver, that costs 200 bucks, and is a stereo component, not a stand-alone radio.
This blog exists because HD Radio is cool, broadcast for free, and relatively obscure. We'll highlight the best receivers, cheapest receivers, and tips for getting good results from your HD radio listening.
This blog exists because HD Radio is cool, broadcast for free, and relatively obscure. We'll highlight the best receivers, cheapest receivers, and tips for getting good results from your HD radio listening.
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“HD Radio on the Offense”
“But after an investigation of HD Radio units, the stations playing HD, and the company that owns the technology; and some interviews with the wonks in DC, it looks like HD Radio is a high-level corporate scam, a huge carny shill.”
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2007-03-07/music/hd-radio-on-the-offense
“4/4/07 - FCC: Market to Decide Fate of HD Radio”
http://www.diymedia.net/archive/0407.htm
“Sirius, XM, and HD: Consumer interest reality check”
“While interest in satellite radio is diminishing, interest in HD shows no signs of a pulse.”
http://www.hear2.com/2007/02/sirius_xm_and_h.html
"U.S. automakers not jumping into HD Radio"
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN2632750220070427?pageNumber=1
"Bridge Ratings: Sweat the cell phone and don't count on HD"
"In other words, Bridge says interest in HD radio is decreasing even as your station works hard to increase awareness. What can I possibly add to this honest and bleak picture that I haven't said before? My well-intended warnings about HD's "premature death" seem to be rearing their ugly heads almost two years later."
http://www.hear2.com/2007/04/bridge_ratings_.html#comments
"But is 'availability' of HD radios the problem?"
"And one broadcaster reported to me that he asked an iBiquity rep how many HD radios had actually been sold as of the most recent accounting. And this was his answer: 150,000."
http://www.hear2.com/2007/04/but_is_availabi.html#comments
"Is Pay-for-Play HD Content on Horizon?"
http://rwonline.com/pages/s.0049/t.4028.html
"HD Radio Effort Undermined by Weak Tuners in Expensive Radios"
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/7002/hd-radio2.html
"The FCC Tunes Into HD Radio--And May Turn Off Distant AM"
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2007/03/the_fcc_greenlights_hd_radio_n.html
“RW Opinion: Rethinking AM’s future”
“Making AM-HD work well as a long-term investment is seen as an expensive and risky challenge for most stations and their owners. There is the significant downside of potential new interference to some of their own AM analog listeners as well as listeners of adjacent-channel stations.”
http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.557.html
HD Radio is such a farce !
Well, that's a depressing picture you paint. Still, though, it seems like whether ibiquity's approach or someone else's approach takes off, it just makes sense that we will exploit all available spectra in the future. HD TV (brodcast television) isn't super popular yet either, and it has taken quite a while to build momentum. I remember seeing HDTV in Japan fifteen years ago; they were already broadcasting a few hours a ay in it at that time...
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