On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:25:40 -0500, "Michael Lawson"
wrote:


"Eric F. Richards" wrote in message
.. .
Telamon wrote:


The situation would be much better if the band was split up
between
analog and digital.

The situation would be far better if they had a separate band for
digital-only broadcasts, perhaps high in UHF where the radio waves
behave more like Edwardo's myopic view of the world.

I have to agree. It's one thing to add a band,
like FM when it came along, but quite another
to simply replace one mode with another within
a band.

It's no accident that the time limit for the television
stations to stop broadcasting the old analog
methods got extended; people simply weren't
lining up for the digital televisions.

--Mike L.


The NAB didn't want a new band for DAB because everyone would have had
an equal signal and the entrenched powerhouses would have lost their
signal advantage. So instead, they get 300 new SDARS stations to
compete with in every market. Brilliant.