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Old March 6th 11, 09:02 AM posted to ba.broadcast,rec.radio.shortwave,alt.radio.digital
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Default Who Will Remember 'Analog' Radio In 2020 . . .

On Mar 5, 11:00*am, iBiquity Fraudsters
wrote:
On Mar 5, 4:02*am, SMS wrote:



On 3/5/2011 12:41 AM, RHF wrote:


Within a Decade ~2016+ IBOC {HD-Radio} in the USA
will reach the Tipping-Point and Analog Radio will be
like 8-Tracks and BetaMaxs... a something that fewer
and fewer remember with each passing year . . .


I'd say more like 2020 to 2025 for analog terrestrial radio to disappear
in the U.S. Because of the recession you're not going to see HD Radio in
every new car for five to seven more years, and thus there will be too
many relatively new vehicles with analog-only radios in "~2016+." Look
how long it took every vehicle to have FM, after FM was invented, more
than thirty years!


I'd predict that by 2020, buying a vehicle with an analog FM radio will
be like buying a vehicle with a cassette deck in 2011. I could be wrong
of course, all of a sudden something so much better could come along
that everyone abandoned digital radio.


The big advantage in the U.S. and other HD countries, is that it's a
more gradual transition than in Europe. This causes some problems in
terms of co-existence of analog and digital on the same band, but it
also makes the transition a lot easier. It's still possible that if DAB+
fails that the European countries will look to the success of HD Radio
in the U.S. and realize that even though it's an American system that
it's a better solution than DAB+.


How long do you think that investors will continue to float iBiquity?
iBiquity was supposed to go IPO by 2009, but now it is too late,
especially since many investment firms out of NY, and some direct
iBiquity investors, have repeatedly visited my blog and know about the
car HD Radio investigations.


The Economic Tipping Point Has Passed
~translation~ YOU LOSE !