On 1/11/2012 12:35 PM, sms88 wrote:
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As I stated, there are valid reasons to be opposed to digital radio
but the quality of the audio on FM digital radio is not one of those
reasons.



You write in an Orwellian Newspeak in which IBOC becomes "digital
radio."

The truth is that IBOC is a pathetically poor excuse for digital
radio in the same sense that a plastic ring from a Crackerjack box
is a poor excuse for a precious gem. And that is the real issue here.

If we had real digital radio, and we don't, there would be no such
thing as "AM digital" or "FM digital." There would only be digital
radio -- in a dedicated band with all licensees having
full-quieting, and full-time, and full-fidelity signals with
bandwidth to spare.

That, of course, is exactly what the money men did _not_ want.

So they did everything in their power to prevent it.

They were selfish and criminal, to be sure. But worse, they were
stupid. Their IBOC system, designed to preserve the "superiority" of
the big stations owned by the money men by continuing and
accentuating the inferiority of the small stations' signals, is
pretty much a retarded turkey that few have heard of and that no one
wants. It rings a pathetic and hokey death knell for radio broadcasting.



With every good wish,



Kevin Alfred Strom.