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"Frank Dresser" wrote:

"Chuck Reti" wrote in message
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IBOC in the end has nothing to do with audio quality. If that really
was
the point we might have had a chunk of spectrum for Digital Radio like
the DTV transition for video. IBOC is about Digital Rights Management,
enabling others to decide what you may or may not hear or, God Forbid,
record.
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chuck reti
detroit mi

Others already decide what is broadcast, and I don't see how digital
modulation can keep anyone from recording audio. Just what does IBOC
have to do with Digital Rights Management?

Frank Dresser

I'm just pessimistic and cynical about the Brave New future of digital
broadcasting. IBOC as a "digital modulation" technique is not in itself
the evil (well, OK, it spews hash across the AM dial), but as a
transport for DRM-encoded digital content it may likely disable the
listener from doing what is considered fair use recording. I could see
the instance where one might not be able to "time shift" a program
without a subscription or use fee. For sure not in the immediate future,
but possible eventually.

chuck reti
detroit mi