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Old October 15th 08, 07:57 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
Radio Ronn Radio Ronn is offline
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Default ibiquity AM hybrid digital radio provides little consumer benefits


Still won't admit you haven't compared HD and non-HD tuners
side-by-side...


I have...and I have seen research where the public has compared them.

Inevitably, they choose the HD tuner.

There has been no effort to make the public aware of any of the formats
available on HD-2's.


You can say there hasn't been any "effort to
make the public aware of the formats available on HD-2's" (which isn't
true, by the way), but there's been a hell of a lot of inventory used
to publicize HD itself.


They have publicized "HD"...but not anything that's on the HD-2 formats.

While the public is aware of something called "HD"...they have no reason to
embrace it.

The public has virtually no awareness of the formats or programmaming
avaialble on HD-2's

Things like FM and stereo took time.


You don't have the same kind of environment, or nearly the same amount
of time. The iPod killed HD radio...


Radio is not an Ipod. It does more than an Ipod can do. People use radio
differently.

THis will as well, like digital
TV....most people aren't trashing one set and buying another. They are
waiting until the first one goes and then buying a replacement one...and
guess what...it's digital!


More obfuscation. Of course new TVs are digital- analog is being
phased out.


But people haven't been replacing their sets simply to buy digital. They
are replacing sets when they need to, and finding digital sets are whats
available as replacements.

Same for radio.

Everything "messes with the sound", speakers, antennas, microphones,
recievers, room ambiance. Most of the public are not 'purists'.

Not even a nice straw man.


It's the truth.


it's not the point I was making. Typical devious HD shill. Go away.


Can't handle the truth, huh?