David Eduardo wrote:

Of course there isn't. The poromotion of HD on a massive scale just began
and the 2.0 design spec receivers have not arrived at retail yet.





I'm beginning to hear promotion of HD, here, but little of it on AM.
Virtually all on FM. This despite the AM band, at least where I'm
located, crippled with IBOC hash, and with the exception of the local in
Waukegan, and the blowtorches using IBOC, not much of the band is usable.

Which raises questions about why, if HD is going to be the saviour of
the AM band, there hasn't been as much promotion of HD on the low band
as there has been on FM.

Although, the strategy of trashing the band to analog users, does, in
a Microsoft kind of way, push listeners of AM only available programming
into adopting HD just to escape the hash and hiss. All of it goes away
in the digital mode.

And make no mistake, there's not a radio available to me (and I have
hundreds) that doesn't nicely produce an IBOC hiss while listening to
analog audio of IBOC equipped stations.

"The Din of Ibiquity," indeed.


Two additional questions: if 2.0 spec receivers are on their way to
retail, how will we know them from the 1.x spec receivers, since
retailers are going to be disinclined to identify obsoleted inventory
themselves.

and:

What, specifically, are the differences, improvements, and
advantages of 2.0 over the previous generation of HD radios?



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