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RHF wrote: so - what say you ~ RHF 1. DRM DRM is a European solution to a European problem. It's a system that a bunch of second tier broadcasters have come up with to use their existing frequencies to continue to be continent wide broadcasters in the face of the various national broadcasters conversions to local digital radio systems. 2. IBOC The US National Association of Broadcasters method to jam adjacent (out of area) signals and restrict the possible number of stations. On a local NPR station's program about their conversion to IBOC, one of the particpants admitted that the reason that IBOC is being pushed was that other systems could double the number of stations and that was unacceptable to the NAB. 3. Cost Both of these systems need a digital signal processor with a hundred million instructions per second or so of throughput. That sort of CPU power is going to cost in both money and electrical power consumption. That means about $100 more than an analog radio and a hard time to make a portable that doesn't suck batteries like no tomorrow. The IBOC promoters seem to think that people only listen to the radio in a car, too. Well, maybe that's the only market that will spend the $$$ for the equipment. I hear that the IBOC digital CODEC (compression scheme) is lousy for voice. Just what the talk radio people need. ;-) IBOC and HDTV have the same problem. I'm gonna be damned if I will spend several hundred bucks for a new radio or TV if it's the same crappy programming as I get now. Mark Zenier Washington State resident |