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Looks like you need to change your perspective, on how HD Radio is
being marketed to the public, because this baby is dead - too-little-
too-late.

Those of us who have been involved with HD since its earliest developmental
days feel that the project is going ahead faster than expected. The
significant FMs in the top 100 markets, with few exceptions, are all on with
HD or are committed with contracts signed. There are already several hundred
"first step" HD-2 channels going, and more and more receivers are appearing,
some getting close to the critical price points for mass sales.

As I have said, AM HD may be a different issue (although the truly
significant stations are on in the major markets) but that is a problem with
the health and future viability of the AM band, not with HD itself.

Keep in mind that much new technology is expensive in its early phases... my
first VCR cost over $800, while my first CD player cost $1,400. I can now
get a VHS (were I to want one) for around $30 and a portable CD player was
spotted at retail last week for under $15.