"Telamon" wrote in message
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600 stations have second formats on the HD 2 channel.

Really, so if I turn on my current radio and get the programming I want
this will benefit me how?

Then don't listen. None of us will miss you.

Second HD radio trashes my analog reception.

So upgrade to digital.

No thanks. I do not consider HD an "upgrade."

It sounds better and is much more impervious to man made
interference.

I firmly rebuke you for making the sounds better claim and as for more
impervious to man made noise nope. Digital mode is not some magical way
of avoiding the signal to noise issue.

You are confusing system noise with ambient noise in the transmission path
between the transmitter and the receiver. Digital is pretty much impervious
to the ambient noise.

On AM it is even more dramatic. When the analog system is nearly burried by
ambient noise (like computer noise, power line noise, etc.) the HD signal
can be 100% useful and to have only the noise floor of the digital
system.... stations that avoid multiple codecs and multiple DACs and have a
100% digital path from studio to transmitter find that the noise floor in
the digital domain is way below any level where the human ear can hear it.


It has already succeeded. It will continue to grow over the next
number of years, but getting nearly 200 models of radios in the
channels, independent chipset manufacturers (including the new high
efficiency one announced htis week) is success as part of a many year
plan.

You and I have different definitions of success then.

1200 operating stations in the US, 600 HD2 channels with new formats, 200
receivers on shelves or in the channels, new low power chips ready in a few
months, etc., etc. all indicate that, less than a year after the consumer
launch, HD is moving ahead of schedule.

It's certainly more successful than satellite radio, which lost over $1
billion last year, 6 years into that project.