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"David Eduardo" wrote:

"Telamon" wrote in message
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The following two quotes from the link were all I could find in the
article about "chips." Please excuse the quotes within quotes.

"Asked about HD Radio and its traction with consumers, Smulyan said
adoption is going to take time. "There are a billion radios in the
United States today," he said. "We're not going to replace a billion
radios in a week and a half." Mason agreed, saying, "If you look and see
how quickly this curve is coming, it is remarkable." He said the real
discussion will be about HD chips and the distribution channels that
will open up when the chips appear in iPods, cell phones, and other
devices."

"Another questioner asked if there's any industry group working with
consumer electronics manufacturers on getting radio tuners into devices,
and Smulyan responded, "The answer is yes. The HD [Digital Radio]
Alliance is working on it." "

So this adds up to nothing. These are just nebulous statements that are
promises with no specifics of any kind. No names, no dates, no devices
(chips), no products, and the last sentence in the first quote states
that the discussion on new devices (chips) has yet to take place.

All this is, is promotional talk. Smoke and mirrors. It's a dream. It
could amount to something in the future but to date ZERO.

these are all people who have seen the Samsung presentations. "The chip"
means the Samsung chip, which is now in limited developer shipment per
Samsung's statements at the CES.

Someone made a mistake. All the references to a radio on a chip on the
Samsung site were analog. Looks like there is some confusion here as
they do have chips for satellite and HD but not AMBCB and FMBCB.

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Telamon
Ventura, California