"K Isham" wrote in message news:46e13315@kcnews01...
David Eduardo wrote:

I noticed you ignored my rant about my visit to Radio Shack to demo a "HD"
radio.

A lot of the early radios were simply bad. Now we are in the third
generation, and they are better but the really good things will come in
2008.

While HD may be improved, if you can't receive it while jogging, at work
or in the car where most of the people listen, how are you going to sell
it?

Samsung and others have announced new, low power chips for Q1 of 2008. These
will enable portable devices. Remember, portable CD players took 6 years to
get to the $100 price point.

Most radio listening, about 70%, is at work or in the home, not in the car.

Maybe you could interest the power that be, to utilize the HD signal to
download web - pages such as detours, traffic jams that would be
pertinent to the user, plus you could set it up for the user to interface
with the computer for products etc, not just a replay of the morning drive
time show. This will not happen unless your industry can come up with a
more flexible system.
Ken I

Data streams for all that sort of thing are coming. And the new iPod has HD
features:

"After 18 months of behind-the-scenes development, iBiquity and Apple have
connected radio to the iPod. It comes as Polk Audio releases the next
generation of its I-Sonic and the JBL iHD receivers. With this device,
listeners can "tag" songs they hear then buy the song via iTunes. Several
groups have already struck licensing deals with Apple. Is this the
technology breakthrough radio has been looking for?"