IBOCcrock wrote:
On Sep 18, 4:39 pm, D Peter Maus wrote:
IBOCcrock wrote:
On Sep 18, 12:27 pm, Rfburns wrote:
Stations don't care that you can't hear beyoind thier local area and
the FCC doesn't care that you can't hear your favorite station
anymore. Try and contact them.
HD AM is here to stay. 100 yrs of tradition has been given to the
highest bidder and the consumer lost.
Try and find an HD radio. The salesman just looks at you wondering
what you're talking about.
The FCC says - "let the market decide". The market did decide by
little or no need for HD but that was just a smoke screen because you
get it anyway.
It's over.
jw
It's not over:
"4/4/07 - FCC: Market to Decide Fate of HD Radio"
http://www.diymedia.net/archive/0407.htm
The end may be near:
http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com/200...y-be-near.html
While, God I hope you're right, don't count onIBOCgoing away
anytime soon. There's been a LOT of money spent, and a huge effort put
into this technology. No one is going to let this go easily. And RADIO,
often being its own worst enemy, especially, will hang onto this until
there is nothing left.

By the time AM Stereo was implemented, it was nearly DOA. And yet, it
took nearly 20 years for it to go away. And, though, noone has that kind
of patience, today, you can expect AMIBOCto linger long after the AM
Band is dead, dead, dead.

RADIO is determined that there will be a digital solution to both its
problems and its non-problems come Hell or high water.

No one wants to see this horse**** go away more than I do, but as
you've witnessed here, radio people can be stubborn.- Hide quoted text -

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"RADIO is determined that there will be a digital solution to both its
problems and its non-problems come Hell or high water."

DAB is stalling in the UK, DAB has stalled in Canada. As consumers
continue to shunn HD Radio, and broadcasters realize that IBUZZ has
driven away a good-part of listeners, they will have to turn off
IBUZZ, at some point.



Don't count on it. We're not talking about DAB in the UK and Canada,
where decisions about implementation and development are made by the
government. We're talking about terrestrial broadcasting in the US,
where the most vibrant force is the market.

Most people are not aware that the Powell FCC mandated that all
future modulation schemes would be DIGITAL. For all media. And that
analog was in its sunset years. Nowhere does it say what those schemes
would be. Only that they be digital. IBOC fullfils that criterion.

This will NOT die easily.

You're correct that there's little to no public interest. And that
FCC has also mandated that there will be a marketplace solution to the
issue. But that doesn't mean that IBOC is in a buy or die circumstance.
It means that whatever is to come will be determined by market forces.
Within THAT context, both Radio an iBiquity could continue to modify,
evolve and reinvent IBOC applications, technical solutions, and
marketing solutions until things catch fire.

You need to consider that there has been an astonishing amount of
money spent here. By iBiquity. By broadcasters. And by manufacturers.
And that licensing offers a cash cow to iBiquity when the market for
IBOC hardware saturates. No one in a market economy will let go of that
kind of goldmine without a fight.

IBOC may be doomed. God, I hope so. But whether or not that's true,
it will not die quickly. And it will not die quietly.

This will not go away as quickly as it appeared.