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"David Eduardo" wrote:

"Telamon" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote:


"Steve" wrote in message
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On Sep 22, 8:52 pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:

Nobody with any actual knowledge thought there would be portables in
2006.

Not true. The availability of portables was predicted well before
2006.

Not by either iBiquity or receiver manufacturers. Those who were
discussing
this possibility were speculating, and we could have had better data by
calling Miss Cleo.

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You would know better than any other poster about Miss Cleo.

HD radios were originally supposed to be out more than a year ago
including portables. I see you are now into revising history.

Any reliable source reported, through Spring of this year, that there was no
chip capable of the battery drain requirements of a portable. Now that
Samsung and others have announced low cost low power chips, we can now
predict portables around Q2 or Q3 of 2008.

There were HD radios out nearly 4 years ago. However, they were really
limited in production, marketed mostly to the engineering staffs of early HD
stations. The HD system was developed to first get stations on, then get
some early receivers, then get more stations on, then get FCC approval and
then get mass production. That was the only way manufacturers could have the
necessary guarantees: they wanted about half the total radio listening to be
to HD equipped stations and coverage of about 2/3 of the population of the
US... both goals have been achieved now.

Well that a little better of you and don't neglect that portables were
supposed to be just around the corner.

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Telamon
Ventura, California