"R J Carpenter" wrote in message
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The Sunday, June 27, 2004, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/
carried a 1/4-th page story on IBOC. It is on page F7 of the business
section, written by Rob Pegoraro. You'll have to register to read it
online.

Regarding FM-IBOC, "In general it functions only where analog broadcasts
already work fine."

He also reported that WETA-FM's analog and digital were a few seconds out of
sync, but that is certainly not inherent.

I imagine that iBiquity isn't too happy with the story.

Two things come to mind from this article....the idea that I'd have to accept (when
stations go to non-compatible digital mode) a less-than-acceptable audio signal (as I
just can't stand MP3 quality, even at higher codecs raths), just so the station can
claim it's "High Definition" is unacceptable. When I travel, I expect that I should
be able to listen for at least a half-hour from city's center to where I'm going, and
this system pretty clearly won't measure up.

The second issue (although this goes away when stations go full-dgital) is why a
station wouldn't do an analog delay to match the delay for the encode process on
digital. Of course, this means station monitors couldn't be used by on-air
talent....yet another obstacle to being able to monitor quality, particularly in
combo operations.

I'm glad I did a lifetime subscription to Sirius. It looks more and more like I'll
be listening to this more as the days of traditional broadcasting comes to an
end.....
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