"D. Peter Maus" wrote in message
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On 1/14/12 24:55 , FarsWatch4 wrote:
"D. Peter wrote in message
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On 1/13/12 14:52 , FarsWatch4 wrote:

It doesn't offer the improvement in audio promised.

It does.


Actually, it doesn't.

Yes, it does. Have you listened to any AM stations in HD?

Yes, I have. Digital artifacts. High noise. More distortion than
wideband AM.

If you hear AM HD as worse...then you are in the minority.

So, NO...HD radio doesn't offer the improvement in audio that's been
promised.

Yes it does.

A number of studies which have been conducted have specifically excluded
trained ears, musicians, and audiophiles, in favor of largely
uninvolved,
uninterested, and unhearing individuals,

This is not true.

It is. I was part of several of them.

No, it is not true.

9 out of 10 doctors also recommended cigarette smoking to aid and
improve digestion.

Where is this study?

It was the advertising hook for marketing cigarettes post-war.

Yes, it was an advertising hook...not a study of any serious basis. (Can't
you tell the difference?)

Read the Fraunhofer studies about the audible differences between MP3
and CD audio.

However, people embrace the MP3 and accept it.

There's plenty of scientific data available for those who wish to know
the facts.

And for those who want to minipulate them.

Quoting marketing perceptuals to rebut scientifically observed facts
is a logic failure common to iBiquity fanbois.

However, people are not buying it for "audio improvment".

"People" aren't buy it at all. Comparatively speaking.

Well...people aren't buying RADIOS at all....so it's a non-starter.


Then, HD, being a Radio product, is also a non-starter, by your own
words.

There is apathy about ALL radio. Getting anyone interested in anything
about radio is a challenge.


If HD Radio offered the vastly sought after programming you claim, and
the
audio quality is so superior, radios would be flying off the shelves.
They're not.

I didn't say "vastly sought after"...I would use the term alternative
programming. It's more niche.

Look at actual playlists. It's hardly niche. It's repackaged programming
that's found elsewhere on the dial.

I have looked at the playlists. No, it is not programming that is found
elsewhere on the dial.

And where there is genuinely unique and alternative programming, it's
audience is vanishingly small.

As stated earlier. It's niche.

And in the US, broadcasting has always been about the money. Even HD
subchannels are about the money.

True.

Satellite Radio, with its much broader reach has the potential to
monetize small lifegroup size by aggregating the niche across the entire
landscape of the population into salable numbers...but even Satellite
Radio has failed to do that. Why?...

Because (again) there is apathy about ALL radio....

So, if you're taking the position that HD radio offers alternative
programming on the digital subchannels, you're again dispensing misleading
information.

Apparently you do not know what you are talking about...

Youa re baisically repeating sound bites and things you've heard others
espouse without ahving any real understanding of reality.

However, you are entitled.

And sales demonstrate that the pubic isn't buying what iBiquity is
selling.

No, it doesn't. There is no "sales finish line"...

You're saying that there's a business model without goals?

Oh, there are goals, it is not "how many people go into best buy and
purchase an HD radio".