On Sep 20, 12:01 pm, "Frank Dresser"
wrote:
"IBOCcrock" wrote in message

ups.com...



And, how are consumers ever going to get good reception with portable
HD (don't forget that HD needs power bricks), as table-top needs AM-
loop and external FM-dipole antennas?

I think it can be done. I can imagine a few technical reasons why most of
these radios are mediocre performers, but I'm thinking the biggest reason is
that these radios designs are based on some marketing illusions, rather than
on performance.

It might start becoming obvious, even to ibiquity, that digital doesn't sell
itself.

Technically, ther eis no way HD
will ever work...period. $5 HD radios - with the expensive HD chipset
and licensing fees to iBiquity, it will never happen.

Ibiquity sets the price of their chipsets. If radio sales remain dead in
the water, they might decide they need a new game plan. Selling the chips
cheap might encourage most of the rest of the broadcasters to buy and
license broadcast equipment from ibiquity.

And I fully expect the pay radio variation of IBOC to show up one of these
days.

My point is that ibiquity and the broadcasters have still have options to
play out before they give up.

I just don't think the conclusion of this mess is yet determined.

And, what stores
sell radios anymore and who buys radios?

You're kidding, right?

Frank Dresser

FD - IBOC Crock is a Strand-Up Guy :
Obsessed by His Own Humor ~ RHF