On Mar 26, 4:04 pm, RHF wrote:
On Mar 26, 1:16 pm, D Peter Maus wrote:
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MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE SERIOUS about spending their hard-
earned money WISELY would NEVER pay for a satellite subscription.
That's what they said about cable. And later satellite TV.
It's all about content, Gary. What you want, you'll pay for. Cable TV
has taught us that.
HD has failed to deliver on its promise of better audio. And it's
never made a case for content.
Cable subscribers signed up for content not available over the air.
Satellite TV subscribers signed up for content not available through Cable.
Satellite radio subscribers have signed up for content not available
on terrestrial radio.
HD could offer the same alternatives, but has not. So, HD has been of
interest to gadgeteers and geeks, broadcasters and those with a vested
interest in the technology. But the public has been unwilling to drop
$200+ on a radio that only provides what is already available free.
Radio listening is about content. Until HD is promoted for it
content, it will not garner much interest with the buying public.
If the radio is not playing what the listener wants to hear....it
doesn't matter what it sounds like.
DPM,
Hence the Clear Channel request to the FCC to Extend
the Broadcast Decency Rules to DBS-Radio.
Create an Equality in the Allowable "Content" for both
Terrestrial AM/FM and Direct Satellite Radio Broadcasters.
Clear Channel to FCC : Wash XM-Sirius' Mouth-Out with Soap
-by- Matthew Lasar - Published : March 25, 2008
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...nnel-to-fcc-wa...
Taking the "X" out of XM Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) Radio
Clear Channel wants the FCC to apply the Broadcast Decency
Rules to DBS-Radio.
Now Clear Channel wants even more strings attached
to the possible . . .
-source- Ars Technica {Art of Technology}
CopyRight (c) 1998-2008 - Ars Technica, LLC
All Rights Reserved.
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IBOC & HD-Radio = Follow-the-Money = Bu$ine$$ & Politi¢$
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the truth is out there - riding on a radio wave ~ RHF
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- - - the digital divide : i draw the line @ iboc 'hd' radio - - -
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Google Search Results for : HD-Radiohttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=HD-Radio
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Google News Results for : HD-Radiohttp://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=HD-Radio
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"Questions About High Definition HD Radio"
Q: Why do I get drop-outs or silences on the HD2 Services?
A: This is a sign of marginal signal strength at your radio. It is
important to remember that the HD Radio multicast channels (HD2, HD3,
etc), unlike the HD1 channel, do not have an analog signal for the
radio to 'fall-back to' when digital reception is lost. So a listener
with marginal reception that is losing the digital signal will
experience periods of silence until the signal is regained.
http://www.wpr.org/hd/hd_faq.cfm
"Is HD Radio Toast?"
"There are serious issues of coverage. Early adopters who bought HD
radios report serious drop-outs, poor coverage, and interference. The
engineers of Ibiquity may argue otherwise and defend the system, but
the industry has a serious
PR problem with the very people we need to
get the word out on HD... In other words, everything you can find on
the regular FM dial... The word has already gotten out about HD Radio.
People who have already bought an HD Radio are telling others of their
experience (mostly bad) and no amount of marketing will reverse this."
http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=487772
Most automakers won't even touch HD, because it simply doesn't work -
there are no analog backups for the HD channels, it jams, and causes
interference. Wait until consumers figure out that their "defective"
HD radios don't work.