This is whats' next, USB-powered HD Radio product designed to add HD
Radio technology to a PC, a portable navigation device or any device
featuring a USB port.”

So why would I spend $60.00 to hear radio on my PC when the whole
world is at my fingertips, including free music catalogs. The HD
shills claim HD broadcasters have made available special jukebox
programming only available on radio, but sooooooooo what? And I know
radio is more than just music, but so far HD stations are just that,
HD jukeboxes.

I’d sooner spend $87.00 for a 32GB Flash drive.

“The market (listeners) is demanding portable HD receivers?” that’s
spin and hype! Manufactures maybe, but they have yet to sell any
radios of any significance and the number is well over 60 different
models that are currently available.

Sony Walkman with Digital Tuning is $37.99 on Amazon. And used
$17.99.
When I can walk into Wal-Mart and find HD radio’s in this same price
range I might buy one. I’m not spending $80.00 for a frigging clock
radio simply because it’s HD enabled when $10.99 does the same dam
thing, and sounds pretty good too! Joe the plumber and Joe six pack
isn’t going to spend $80.00 for a clock radio either. It’s a pipe
dream! Strubles licensing scam has kept pricing of HD radios
artificially high. I suspect as the global economies tank, more people
feel the same way too!

Despite the Hype from the Radio Alliance, 2008 will be another
depressing year for HD radio sales.

Struble says “people actually call when HD transmitters go off the
air.” Meaning people are listening. The real issue is dead air! I
suspect nobody is paying attention to Jukebox Bob, because Bob is
stuffed in closet someplace. And anybody else who is left in radio is
multitasking to the max, keeping AM/FM running. Stations are cutting
talent, again, and blowing out their promotional departments too!
Stations can baily manage what they have now.

I did a search on Wal-Mart. I typed walkman radio and I found 738
pages of Ipods, Zunes XM plugin gadgets, radio flyers and everything
else. Then I types portable radios, I found 27 pages, of zunes, ipods,
XM plugin gadgets, cb’s and everything else. What does that tell
you!

Strubles licensing scam has kept pricing of HD radios artificially
high.

HD radio, obsolete out of the box.