"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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Actually, if there were consumer interest, you wouldn't be able to
swing a dead hooker in a Best Buy without hitting an HD radio.

Consumer interest drives sales. Not supply. And as well researched as
the big box retailers are, if there were consumer interest, they would
be stocking these things by the rail car load, because there would be
money in it. But if there is no consumer demand for these products, no
retailer is going to give up valuable shelf space for them.

Not only would I not buy into IBOC, I wouldn't accept a radio given to me
for free (regardless of whether I was back home or not). The system has no
plusses. It generates noise on the band, and adds nothing of significance.
AM stations have no content worthy of "high fidelity" anymore, and it's not
likely that they ever will, since the industry has decided that "nobody
listens to AM", and has made it a self-fulfilling prophecy. FM doesn't need
IBOC, as the audio quality already surpasses what the vast majority consider
to be acceptable.

All in all, IBOC isn't even a solution in search of a problem. It IS the
problem, and the only solution is for it to die a quick death and let
millions of people who don't conform to the industry's notion that "nobody"
listens outside the protected contours and "nobody" listens to AM have their
choice of stations and programming back.

*steps down off soapbox*