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"Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote in message link.net... [snip] So, what should be done with AM? Roll back NRSC. Give us 10 KHz - wide audio (at least), and get rid of the aerobeacons on longwave, and turn the longwave band over to broadcasting. Just a thought, anyway...that would certainly ield better coverage area. I say -- allow wideband audio, and let the stations who can't compete go dark. There's too many radio stations, anyway. The comparison to AM Stereo is, at any rate, right on the mark, and the NAB is making the same mistake in their enthusiasm for sound quality that they made in the Eighties, namely, that sound quality is a secondary or tertiary consideration, and sound quality does take a backseat to program content every time. Until that issue is addressed, the change that the digital vendors lust for will never happen. There's a cycle to the "better audio will save radio" arguement. FM would replace AM in the fifties. It didn't. FM stereo would save FM in the sixties. It didn't. AM stereo would save AM in the eighties. AM stereo is almost gone, now. I don't know if this is a generational amnesia thing, or it's simply means nobody promotes this stuff after the patents run out. Speaking of "change," I think that's the primary motivation for the hype. Ibiquity's website is amusing. Their view of the future is quite clear. Soon, although the exact dates are undisclosed, we will all be listening to perfect "High Defination" radio. It will be everywhere!! No doubt I'll be listening to IBOC radio as I drive my turbine car or as I fly my jet pack or while I'm relaxing on my next Pan Am flight to the moon. Oh, well, at least the B.S. marketing type$ (aka "Liars") will have something to shill for. Life ain't fair. Howcum the shills get all the job security? Frank Dresser |