On 15 Apr, 21:15, "David Eduardo" wrote:
"D Peter Maus" wrote in ...

David Eduardo wrote:

iBiquity simply confirmed that the HD system was capable of addressing
receivers were this a requested feature. At present, I do not believe any
radio in production is addressable.

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Nice try. That's not the suject of this convesation. And your
continuing attempt to divert the discussion to your denials of fact say a
lot about the intent of much of what you've posted in this forum.

Right now, no chip and no receiver is adressable. in other words, there is
no way in hell to do paid services on HD today or in the near future.

There were some tests, and the system is able to do data transmission in any
channel other than HD-1. There is no use yet for this type of service and
there is no chipset or receiver that can pick such a service up.

The topic of conversation is:

Are they trying to do it? And are you telling the truth? You've been
saying all along conditional programming access is not in the plan for HD,
and you know this by virtue of your specialized and internal knowledge not
available to the public.

As far as I know, there has been no testing of controlled limited access
programming with a subscription model in mind. There have been limited tests
of data streams, with examples being traffic data and stock quotes. Nobody
is doing this, and no equipment exists to do it.

By iBiquity's own admission, in published word and practical test,
conditional programming access IS part of the HD plan. So, you're either
knowingly not telling the truth, or you're not as intimately informed as
you claim.

My read is that conditional access can be made available. it is not at
present. And I know of no station planning to do this, as there is, so far,
no practical model for the economic part.



Either way....Yes, they are trying to implement conditional access.

Proving it can be done and doing it are two different things. With FMeXtra
and SCA, there is no apparent demand or advantage.

And no...you're not telling the truth.

Something that can be done and something radio stations want to do are very
different things.

Tell us all about it, NAMBLA dude.