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They can't carry the news around on a thumb drive
Another Reason I don't tote, especially a smart phone, or a touch tablet
(if I owned one) or sheet like that,,, I wonder how many people are getting knocked down every day and their toteable touch tablets get stolen? You remember when the first iPhones came out? and somebody was waiting by an elevator in a store in NYC. Don't Tote! cuhulin |
They can't carry the news around on a thumb drive
On Mar 7, 12:17*am, wrote:
Another Reason I don't tote, especially a smart phone, or a touch tablet (if I owned one) or sheet like that,,, I wonder how many people are getting knocked down every day and their toteable touch tablets get stolen? You remember when the first iPhones came out? and somebody was waiting by an elevator in a store in NYC. Don't Tote! cuhulin Must be the i- Apple store in the GM Building . |
IBOC : A Natural Evolution Requires Time and HD-Radio's Time Has Not Yet Come . . .
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SMS wrote: So all-digital does allow for more "virtual CD" quality audio channels, but no, you cannot combine multiple audio channels for even higher quality audio. Thank you for finally acknowledging that. I've only had to mention it about five times. And YOU'RE the "expert"! From the actual iBiquity handbook the rate is 96Kbps. There is no "98Kbps" spec in the system. So going with the real figure, we find that the bit rate is approximately one-fifteenth that of an ordinary CD, the CD including forward error-correction. Amazing! "Virtual CD quality" with seven percent of the data used by the CD. And using a ten-year-old codec at that. You don't have to be an audio engineer to discover why "HD Radio" sounds the way it does. The big advantage of all-digital is that raising power levels no longer will interfere with analog, presuming all stations do a complete digital switchover. This is many years in the future of course. But since there will be no improvement over the audio quality it provides today, what does that buy you? And wait until digital start interfering with other digital stations. Even though you're not willing to admit it, the allocation table on the present FM band was designed for analog, not digital. It's a good thing it will never happen because it will never work, at least not the way the stations expect. -- John Higdon +1 408 ANdrews 6-4400 AT&T-Free At Last |
IBOC : A Natural Evolution Requires Time and HD-Radio's Time Has Not Yet Come . . .
From the actual iBiquity handbook the rate is 96Kbps. There is no
"98Kbps" spec in the system. So going with the real figure, we find that the bit rate is approximately one-fifteenth that of an ordinary CD, the CD including forward error-correction. Amazing! "Virtual CD quality" with seven percent of the data used by the CD. And using a ten-year-old codec at that. You don't have to be an audio engineer to discover why "HD Radio" sounds the way it does. Well over here a broadcaster claims that a 64K Mono channel offers superior sound quality thats Crystal Clear;!... Who was it who said tell the people lies often enough and they become the truth .. Dr Goebbels was it or someone similar?.. -- Tony Sayer |
IBOC : A Natural Evolution Requires Time and HD-Radio's Time HasNot Yet Come . . .
On Mar 7, 4:01*am, tony sayer wrote:
From the actual iBiquity handbook the rate is 96Kbps. There is no "98Kbps" spec in the system. So going with the real figure, we find that the bit rate is approximately one-fifteenth that of an ordinary CD, the CD including forward error-correction. Amazing! "Virtual CD quality" with seven percent of the data used by the CD. And using a ten-year-old codec at that. You don't have to be an audio engineer to discover why "HD Radio" sounds the way it does. Well over here a broadcaster claims that a 64K Mono channel offers superior sound quality thats Crystal Clear;!... Who was it who said tell the people lies often enough and they become the truth .. Dr Goebbels was it or someone similar?.. -- Tony Sayer Yea, it's him, I reckon . |
They can't carry the news around on a thumb drive
On 03/06/2011 07:36 PM, Brenda Ann wrote:
Preaching to the choir there... I don't bash analog radio. I believe it should exist permanently. Too many problems with digital, not the least of which is that it's nowhere near as robust as analog, and you have to do too much to detect and decode it. Once you are absolutely FORCED to buy someone's technology to listen to radio, it's no longer a true public medium. And once HF is all DRM, that will pretty much put an end to all that remote listening off the power grid. Again, not robust enough. When analog fades a bit, you can still use your ears to figure out what's being said/played. With DRM, if it fades, it's gone. Nothing. BTW, when I DO listen to the radio on my iPhone, I can play it for many hours easily. I've yet to run the battery completely down on the phone (4G). Now, talk time... THAT eats the battery pretty good... but I keep a backup with me that plugs right into the 40 pin jack and runs the phone for several hours of talk time. (never used it yet, either). It depends on how close you are to the cell site. Out here in the boonies the transceivers have to work harder. |
They can't carry the news around on a thumb drive
On 03/06/2011 08:20 PM, SMS wrote:
On 3/6/2011 7:41 PM, Brenda Ann wrote: By far most stations have perhaps, at best, a morning and evening "drive time" program. Other than that, the only local content seems to be commercials. I can't say that I've heard a newscast on a (non-news/talk) commercial station in many years. Even our AFN stations have dropped all local content except for emergency command information. And figure that the FM band is starting to get really crowded with sports/talk/religious stations... and who needs to hear Rush, Jim Rome and sanctimonious self righteous preachers in digital? A lot of public radio stations have gone all news/commentary/talk on analog/HD1 and moved music to HD2, often classical and jazz. It doesn't make sense from an audio standpoint to have the music on HD2 and talk on analog/HD1, but the market for news/commentary/talk has expanded as listeners have switched to other ways of listening to music content. If everyone had an HD receiver then they'd be more likely to swap where talk and music reside. KPFT is now carrying KTRU on an HD2 stream. Rice sold KTRU's frequency to the University of Houston for a classical station. |
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IBOC : A Natural Evolution Requires Time and HD-Radio's TimeHas Not Yet Come . . .
On 03/07/2011 01:01 AM, tony sayer wrote:
From the actual iBiquity handbook the rate is 96Kbps. There is no "98Kbps" spec in the system. So going with the real figure, we find that the bit rate is approximately one-fifteenth that of an ordinary CD, the CD including forward error-correction. Amazing! "Virtual CD quality" with seven percent of the data used by the CD. And using a ten-year-old codec at that. You don't have to be an audio engineer to discover why "HD Radio" sounds the way it does. Well over here a broadcaster claims that a 64K Mono channel offers superior sound quality thats Crystal Clear;!... Who was it who said tell the people lies often enough and they become the truth .. Dr Goebbels was it or someone similar?.. 64K mono would be about as crystal clear as 128 stereo, no? That's crystal clear to most people. I listen to 32 K web streams which are great for all but most critical applications. |
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