RHF wrote:
On Oct 24, 4:24 pm, Bill Baka wrote:
dave wrote:
RHF wrote:
FM HD-Radio will come-of-age around 2015
the American Public will have "Spoken" as to
whether Radio Listeners have Adapted to FM
HD-Radio and it's HD-2 Channels.
Radio, as a for-profit entertainment medium, is rapidly dying.
This is a bad trend in my view. Nobody needs HD radio and the FM I get
now is just fine. I can't tell the difference between 1% distortion and
0.01% and my ears are fine. It's all bull**** to me.
HDTV is only 2M Pixels, so whoopee for that, too.

=IF= You are not age 15 to 35 Years : Then 'your'
wants and needs are not the wants and needs of
the Trend-Setters who define the new and exciting
technological developments that are the latest
"Must-Have" things in a Demand Driven Consumer
Market Economy.

I'm 61 and have seen it all, almost. The problem I have with all this is
not lack of understanding since I am an engineer. I got hooked on
electronics due to analog radio and the fact that I could build a
crystal set when I was 8 or 9 years old. When I wanted to improve it I
added some transistors, which my dad hated due to the cost of a single
2N107 or 2N170. At any rate I self educated myself and by ten years old
I was buying used console short wave sets and fixing them up and
probably could have gotten a job as a repair tech at 11 years old. That
motivated me all the way to college, at which point I found myself way
ahead of the rest of the classes. These days things are going needlessly
complex and tinkering is just about out. I can fix *ANYTHING* built
before 1980 since I can get down to the real component level, but the
new stuff is throw away.
Is anybody stupid enough to think that a *Play* station will make kids
want to go into electronics?
The more of this we buy the richer China gets and we fall further behind.
The Commies are just loving taking our money.

If they go to digital AM then we will have a real shortage of engineers
in about 15 years. I got hooked by building ever better crystal sets
starting at 8 years old.
Take that away and most kids will never start tinkering.
It may be too late anyway, since the last kid's stuff seems to be those
stupid Radio Shack '100 projects in one kit' sets.
Bill Baka
Watching the end of an era.

All Eras come to an end
-cause- after all they are 'eras' :

The Vacuum Tube Era . . .

The Transistor & Discrete Component Era . . .

The Integrated Circuit Era . . .

The AM & Shortwave Radio Era . . .

The FM & FM Stereo Radio Era . . .

The Black & White TV Era . . .

The Color TV Era . . .

The Web & UseNet & Dial-Up Era . . .

We are now in the AGE of High Speed Internet/WWW

We are now in the All Things Digital AGE

and when these Ages are over

they too will be called Eras

what's new is anew with each passing era ~ RHF
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IBOC - FM HD-Radio Will Come-of-Age Around 2015
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...70bdb32c6cf8bb
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-the-question-is- What Will Replace It ?
! Bio-Empathic-Implants© -and- Tela-Pathic-Cyber-Net© !
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until then . . . these are my thoughs to
your thoughs expressed in simple words
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The Era of the USA being the top country are just about gone, too.
Prepare for the "Chinese" age.
Stupid Americans did it to themselves.

Bill Baka