In article
,
RHF wrote:

On Mar 5, 6:27*pm, Telamon
wrote:
In article
,
*D Peter Maus wrote:





dxAce wrote:

IBOCcrock wrote:

Got these responses yesterday from a newpaper reporter in Florida, for
an article they just ran on HD Radio:

******,

Glad to peruse your blog. *Thanks for the technical lesson. *I
appreciate it. HD Radio smelled of smoke and mirrors when I first
began researching the article, and I didn't change my mind when I
finished writing it. *I have XM satellite and it is more than I need,
AND I enjoy the choices. Perhaps HD stands for Humpty-Dumpty; who
knows? In the long run, market always has a way of "rewarding" such
chicanery.

It seems as though the FCC is turning a deaf ear to the interference
problem. *Of course, that's not so rare for Cabinet-level agencies. Be
well, and keep up the valuable service you've been doing, and thank
you for the feedback. *My editor was very happy with the article for
helping her sort out the bull**** from the bourbon.

Or, in the case of 'Eduardo', it would be a question of separating the
bull****
from the tequila.


* *I've never been convinced that what he posts here is actually a
bone-deep belief. Lately, I've been more aware of the sense that he's as
much trying to convince himself of the veracity of his positions as he
is trying to convince us.

* *As much as I'd like to believe IBOCCrock's position that HD is DOA,
it's guys like David, and the general level of executive/manglement I've
worked with at Radio, who will continue to milk/morph/tweak/tune HD
until it either dies a staggering and ignominious death, or it finally
becomes viable, though in a form likely not yet realized. It's not going
to simply vanish. Not only two years out with as much as has been
invested. Spectacular failures usually take a decade to gestate.

* *Till then, the shills will continue to hawk, demean, and argue.

* *And contrary to their own assertions, they neither hear, nor will
listen to anything that conflicts their chosen stance.

David has been to busy eating crow these days to do much of that. I just
picked up the March Monitoring times and the word from Ken Reitz who was
there at the CES show shares my opinion of the state HD semiconductor
development. He things Samsung will have next generation HD chips next
fall at the earliest so any new radio set developments are moved into
2009. In ant event the outlook for portable HD radios is poor due to
power and antenna requirements.


Telamon,

In reality the 'portable' HD-Radio will be part of the Third Wave
of HD-Radio deployment and adoption.

The First Wave - Presently there are first and second
generation HD-Radios for the Home; and these Home
HD-Radios do not have Power as an identifiable issue :
Because they run-off of the House's AC Power {Mains}.

The Second Wave - The "Big Advancement" toward the
Earliy Adoption of HD-Radio will come in the placement
of HD-Radios in Cars and Trucks. Again like in the Home
Power is not and identifiable issue with HD-Radio in the
Car since the HD-Radio runs-off the Car's self-charging
12 Volt Systems.

SNIP

I would like to address this "2 wave" if you don't mind. Another
individual tried to pass this off as second generation but I don't see
it that way. Here you make the argument that the same radio in placed in
cars and trucks constitutes a second wave.

I don't see it that way. For me the change would have to be much larger
than sticking the same thing in a mobile unit. This kind of change looks
like 1.0 to 1.1 instead of 1.0 to 2.0 and is minor at best. The change
is too small to warrant a 1 to 2. For a 1 to 2 change it would have to
have a real impact on how people use it or how its use would affects the
user. That would be looking at it from the user perspective.

From the generational perspective an example would be tube to discrete
solid state to integrated circuits would be 2 generations. Here HD has
not changed either so where does the "2nd wave" or "2nd generation" come
from? Beats me.

No real impact on the user or change in implementation means wave or
generation 1.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California