"HD" Radios ! - The Un-Qualified Comments by a
Simple Consumer of 'Free' Over-the-Air AM & FM Radio
http://groups.google.com/group/hd-ra...065b770e048027

On Feb 18, 3:50 am, Kenneth Isham wrote:
Point-of-Fact : Consumers Are Buying "HD" Radios !
- How Is This Bad News For "HD" Radio ?
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...6895e5674967b4

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- Unless the radio stations can improve content and sound quality.

Radio Sound - See # 5
5 - FM "HD" Radio is not about better Audio Sound :
It is about a Second 'Sellable" Audio Stream [HD-2]
for the Radio Station to Market to Consumers and
Sell to Advertisers. {Radio It's About Business.}

IMHO - "HD" Radios sound quality is 'good enough' for
the vast majority of Radio Listeners. How much better
can a Radio sound in most moving Cars and Truck;
and in the average Room in a Home.

Reality Sucks - Radio Listeners are Lazy Audio Content
Consumers. It can't get much eaiser than Radio. Buy
a Radio and plug it in. Turn-It-On and Tune-it-In and
Just Listen. Now Extra Costs and Not Extra Work.

Radio Content - See # 6
6 - What FM "HD" Radio needs is a Killer Application to make
the HD-2 Radio Audio Stream "That Something" that Radio
Listeners {Audio Consumers} both WANT and NEED !

IMHO - "HD" Radio {Digital FM Radio} needs new HD-2
Audio Content that is marketable to Radio Listeners and
Sellable to to Advertisers. To first Maintain and then to
Grow their Market Share in the Age of New Media.

- More and more people will switch to Sirius or XM or just
- use the CD or I POD/MP3 connections included with
- most new car sound systems.

Sirius and XM Satellite Radio require Extra Cost and some
Specialized Equipment.

BONUS - Your Homes [Hidden] Source of Digital Audio :
Most American Consumers already have a Second Audio
Source within their Homes that is Commercial Free Audio
and it comes to them in the form of Cable TV or Satellite
TV "Digital" {Can We All Say "HD"} Sound. Usually 40 or
More Digital {TV} Audio Channels to 'choose' from; which
is on the Average more than most Metro Area Radio 'choice'
options available to Free Over-the-Air Radio Listeners.
Presently these Digital {TV} Audio Channels are limited to
Music; but if they Added the Big-5 Talk Radio Networks to
their Line-Up It could attract many more Radio Listeners to
the Digital {TV} Audio Channels. Note - The Big-5 Talk Radio
Network Audio Streams would NOT be Commerical Free.

- I am going to be one of them.

Good - That is Your 'Choice' that you have to make for yourself.

- I wasted over $175 on the Sangean receiver to discover not
- only the sound causes me to shut it off after a half hour,
- but the secondary content is throw away on most of the
- stations except public radio offerings.

Tell Me About It - I Live Beyond the AM/MW "HD" Radio
10 mv/m Contour and FM "HD" Radio 64 dbu Contour.
How Do You Spell "HD" Radio Out Here : NO SIGNAL !
and DROP-OUTS ! - {The Blinking Blue Light}

YES - Presently FM "HD" Radio has not 'found' a KILLER APP
for their HD-2 Digital Audio Streams.

- I have several co-workers who have and love their sat.
- receivers and the sound is much improved over so called
- HD-sound. I can enjoy listening to Sirius's offerings.

-IF- XM and SIRIUS Satellite Radio is Your Thing - Enjoy It !

- I used to listen to a AM-stereo station that to my ears
- almost matched the fidelity of the FM stations. Now that
- it switched to the HD broadcast it sounds like listening to
- the MUSZAC offerings while being put on hold on the
- telephone on my analog receiver.

Yes - AM "HD" Radio presently has both Audio Processing
{Sound Quality just Does Not Sound Right} Problems which
can be Fixed and Co-Channel Interference Problems which
Only will be Fixed {Masked} by Consumers Using new "HD"
Radios versus older Analog Radios; at least in Metro Areas
where the "HD" Radio Signals are Strong and the vast majority
of Radio Listeners are listening to 'Local' Radio Stations.

Once Again Reality Sucks : The Technical Solution to the
Interference heard by most AM/MW Analog Radio Listeners
is a 'New' "HD" {IBOC" Radio. It's Digital Technology functions
in a manner that allows for a 'cleaner' Digital Signal to be
Heard then the 'dirty' Analog Signal that IBOC Creates.

OOPS ! - Another one of "HD" Radios 'dirty' Little Secrets :
As more AM/MW & FM Radio Listeners {Audio Consumers}
start to experience IBOC Interference on their old Analog
AM/FM Radios : They will be told to Up-Grade to newer
"HD" Radios and that will solve their Problems : And It Will
-if- They Live in Metro Areas with Good Local Reception
-and- They Only Listening to 'Local' Radio Stations in their
Area.

These Local Area AM/FM Radio Listeners : Who Do In-Fact
Simply Listen To Local AM/FM Radio are the Vast Majority
of Radio's Audio Consumers and most likely add-up-to 95.5%
of all Radio Listeners Nation-Wide in the USA. Even -if-
the number was 68.3% that would mean that 2-out-of-3 of
American Radio's Audio Consumers would be better served
by "HD" Radio. {At Least on Paper} This is what the Radio
Broadcast Industry {Corporate Media} is Selling and the FCC
is Buying into with iBiquity IBOC Scheme.

- The Sangean cannot decode the HD content at all and the
- analog portion is also much like my previous description
- of auto receiver.

I don't have an Answer for either.

- There is nothing currently on local radio especially HD
- to me spring for a new HD receiver.

IMHO - That would be a Good Short Term (1~3 Year) Decision;
and during that time frame XM or SIRIUS Satellite Radio may
be your easier Audio Consumer 'Choice'.

Ken I.

(OT) : "HD" Radios ! - The Un-Qualified Comments by a
Simple Consumer of 'Free' Over-the-Air AM & FM Radio
http://groups.google.com/group/hd-ra...065b770e048027