Sunday, April 15, 2007
HD Radio
We are in the digital age. We heard the term digital music, digital phones, digital TV many times, we will hear the term HD Radio in the future. HD Radio which is the name of the digital radio, is the next generation of traditional AM/FM radio. The sound quality of digital radio is as clear as the compact disc. To take advantage of this new digital audio, you need to buy a new digital receiver which is about $200. That’s all you have to pay, you don’t need to pay a monthly fee like satellite radio.
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“Sirius, XM, and HD: Consumer interest reality check”
“While interest in satellite radio is diminishing, interest in HD shows no signs of a pulse.”
http://www.hear2.com/2007/02/sirius_xm_and_h.html
"Is Pay-for-Play HD Content on Horizon?"
http://rwonline.com/pages/s.0049/t.4028.html
"HD Radio Effort Undermined by Weak Tuners in Expensive Radios"
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/7002/hd-radio2.html
“HD Radio on the Offense”
“But after an investigation of HD Radio units, the stations playing HD, and the company that owns the technology; and some interviews with the wonks in DC, it looks like HD Radio is a high-level corporate scam, a huge carny shill.”
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2007-03-07/music/hd-radio-on-the-offense
"The FCC Tunes Into HD Radio--And May Turn Off Distant AM"
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2007/03/the_fcc_greenlights_hd_radio_n.html
“RW Opinion: Rethinking AM’s future”
“Making AM-HD work well as a long-term investment is seen as an expensive and risky challenge for most stations and their owners. There is the significant downside of potential new interference to some of their own AM analog listeners as well as listeners of adjacent-channel stations.”
http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.557.html
The FCC has just given away our free airwaves to a few corporate thugs, including iBiquity Digital Corporation. This whole setup is just to the advantage of the HD Radio Alliance, as they own most of the 1,200 stations broadcasting in HD - the small mom-and-pop stations have lost coverage and will probably disappear. This FCC sole-source, non-competitive contract award to iBiquity is totally outrageous. The FCC has left it up to the marketplace, to determine the fate of HD Radio.
Interesting links. I was just thinking about HD radio this week as I saw the JVC HD car radio in Sunday's Fry's ad.
It looks like reception is currently a problem, but maybe that will be resolved.
The first generation HDTV receivers were pretty weak -- sixth generation receivers have solved many of the early reception problems. Maybe we will see the same with HD radio?
HD AM looks like a mess. The radio station advertisers pay the stations based on coverage, so I sympathize with the radio stations seeing lack of motivation to update.
The Internet has opened up the way for a huge variey of digital radio stations. As our cars and homes becomer more Internet enabled, I wonder if we'll just listen to Internet radio stations in the future and HD radio might not be needed? Traditional radio/tv broadcasting might become a thing of the past.
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