On May 16, 11:57*pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
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On May 16, 8:29 pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
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FM HD sounds good, and has practical applications such as narrowcasting,
ethnic services, etc. And it really does not interfere with any other
usable
service... so why not let it continue? It's likely that the recession has
reduced or eliminated HD's chances of long term viability, but it does
not
hurt to leave it on.

You've got to admit you've had a change of heart. *Going from a hard-
core proponent to a very reduced and subdued "FM HD sounds good" is
nothing short of amazing. *And, in your case, trashes any credibility
you might have had. *But it's good that you've become honest.

I said previously that the current economy was likely going to set HD back
enough so that it would lose its window of opportunity. There is a
contraction in the economy at all level; consumers will not buy new home
radios nor will they buy new cars with HD. By the time the economy recovers,
we will be that much closer to WiMax and other delivery systems.

There are plenty of things on the "old" agenda that are not going to happen
due to the economy, and HD is just one of them.



To refute your "FM HD sounds good" statement * - The difference in
sound quality is insignificant. *Especially when you consider that the
vast majority of radio listeners today couldn't correctly chose
whether they were hearing an analog or digital signal. *In fact, I'd
be willing to wager that you couldn't either. *I'd invite you over and
do a fascinating demonstration to prove it to you but you scare me,
therefore, I won't and you probably wouldn't anyway.

We have done the same comparisons ourselvs, so no thanks. The issue is that
a station music do separate processing for the digital stream to the HD
gear, or there will be no gain and considerable destruction of the digital
audio. When done right by good engineers, there is a considerable difference
that anyone can hear. First in noticability is that since the noise floor is
much lower, more dynamic range can be preserved. Second, the nasty 75 us FM
analog preemphasis curve does not apply to digital, so there is another area
of gain.



The extra channels and services point is dead. *Consumers are
saturated and don't care and most broadcasters don't have the
resources to support them - thank God.

Oddly, there is a rush to rent Hd2s by services ranging from Hindia and
other Indian languages to missing formats like contemporary Hispanic
Christian and Tejano, and they are driving receiver sales.



As a good friend of mine recently said. *I'd rather see radio
completely fail then to see iBiquity digital succeed. *I'm going to
continue, in my small and limited way, to see that iBiquity fails big
time.

Since the investments are already made, and nearly all viable Top 100 market
FMs have HD, they will stay in place, and we will se what the end game is..
AM, as a band, is dead, so, short of having AM radios spit out gold coins,
nothing is going to help AM stations...- Hide quoted text -

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Eduardo - though you were an asshole with me yearssssss ago in here
(under another monicker), telling me I didn't hear a station that
apparently you could never log, though it was proven I DID hear the
station.ahem I will ask you this question and you can look into your
crystal ball and give me the answer for the archives.

Are you trying to say or are others, that there will be "literally" no
AM radio stations? I will paint the picture so there is no
misunderstanding in what I am asking. Will there be day, and if yes -
- when in approx. years - - that I will literally turn on the switch
to my GE P-780 (Thank you Brenda Ann) and there will be just simply
nothing but static?