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Old September 26th 07, 02:20 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default HD radio means Half Dead radio

On Sep 24, 9:58 am, "Frank Dresser"
wrote:
"Eric F. Richards" wrote in messagenews:hlfff3hdip5ud5bkpdimau5qlmfm512c43@4ax .com...

I like this response:


Anonymous said...


Thank you for having the balls to challenge Ibiquity and the NAB.
They are doing serious damage to our once great industry.


Bring broadcasters back to broadcasting otherwise you may as well
sign the stations off.


September 21, 2007 3:04 PM


Hmmmmm...


That's IF the broadcasters want to stick exclusively with broadcasting, at
least free broadcasting. Consider that the broadcasters have spent millions
on IBOC radio interference transmitter equipment and only a pittance on HD
radio content. And they've spent millions more on advertising HD radio
before adaquate mass market radios were available.

HD radio might not have been designed to fail, but it sure doesn't look like
the smart guys have thought out the elements of success, either.

But now we have a FCC decision which will mark the latest first start date
in which very important things got fixed. Inexpensive low power consumption
chips are in the pipeline and I'll bet these new, improved chips are
subscription radio ready.

Frank Dresser


HD TV according to a recent article in Hearing Loss Magazine does not
support Closed Captioning very well. Even though the FCC has mandated
twice that all new televisions MUST run closed captioning. I think
the television manufacturers are more concerned with getting the
product out there than with making sure they meet FCC regulations.