On Mar 6, 2:24�pm, Larry Dighera wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:46:53 -0500, "Mike" wrote in
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"Bob Miller" wrote in message
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Heard on NPR this morning WalMart can now purvey to you *fine HD
radios.

Yeah, they have the Boston Acoustics HD radio and a car radio.

Sure enough, but who cares?

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=5336041
Boston Acoustics HD Radio in Platinum, RECEPTERHDPLAT $299.86

Item Description

*The Recepter Radio HD is the first compact, high-performance stereo
and digital HD radio table model that delivers brilliant clarity and
high-fidelity sound. It is also the first home HD table radio to
receive and seamlessly play the additional digital HD2 multicast
programming that many stations are now broadcasting.

Key Features & Benefits:

*Groundbreaking HD digital technology

*No subscription is needed to listen to HD radio technology with the
sharpest, clearest reception and the best sound *

*Satellite speaker

*Compact satellite speaker lets you listen in true stereo sound *

*Input for iPod and MP3 players

*Play what you carry on your portable player on the Recepter Radio HD,
and let the entire room hear your tracks *

*Patented BassTrak circuitry

*Delivers satisfying bass, even at low volumes, while eliminating
distortion *

*Mini remote control

*A credit card-size remote control makes using the Recepter Radio HD
easy from anywhere in the room *

*20 station presets

*Preset the Recepter Radio to your 20 favorite AM and FM talk and
music stations *

*Dual independent clock alarms

*Every couple will appreciate having two independent alarm clocks that
can be set at two different times for different schedules *

No one cares:

"In-Stat: Digital Radio Set to Take Off"

"In 2006, 73 percent of respondents to an In-Stat U.S. consumer survey
were aware of HD Radio on some level."

http://beradio.com/eyeoniboc/instat-digital-radio-set/

"Sirius, XM, and HD: Consumer interest reality check" (Alexaholic)

"While interest in satellite radio is diminishing, interest in HD
shows no signs of a pulse."

http://www.hear2.com/2007/02/sirius_....html#comments

This just confirms, the lack of interest for HD Radio, on Google
Trends:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22hd... =all&date=all

"Rethinking AM's Future"

"Only 175 or so AM stations have even licensed AM-HD. For a number of
reasons, quite a few have tried it and taken it off the air, or so the
anecdotal evidence suggests. Ibiquity no longer reports in its public
summaries whether a station is on the air. Making AM-HD work well as a
long-term investment is seen as an expensive and risky challenge for
most stations and their owners. With the bulk of successful AMs airing
news, talk and sports, the improved fidelity advantage of HD and
stereo seem only marginally attractive. 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. And of
course we still have no nighttime authority for AM-HD."

http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.557.html

Existing RDS has the same texting functions, as HD/IBOC. For now, HD
Radio/IBOC is dead.