[BC] Top Ten reasons why IBOC won't make much difference...

[Ron Castro]

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From: "Alan Kline" <akline at netins.net>
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Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Top Ten reasons why IBOC won't make much difference...


> And how many 8-track cartridges did a person have to haul around to equal
> the capacity of an iPod?

How big was your car?  They never reached capacity.

>
> The "do it yourself" option may not have been the easiest thing 40 years
> ago, but it's here now.  Portable CD players, mp3 players, satellite
> boom-boxes--all very real.

And all very expensive, unless you're using an illegal downloading service. 
At $1 a song, how much does it cost to fill 30 GB at 192 kbps MP3? Probably 
more than most folk make in a year.  CD's were and still are pretty easy, 
and most cars have them installed, but you don't see much of an impact on 
radio listening.

>
> The 8-track may not have been the hottest thing around, but pre-recorded
> cassettes did find something of a niche market...

Did you see radio listening drop during the 70's and 80's?  I didn't.

Ron Castro

>
> ak
>
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Ron Castro wrote:
>
>> That "no commercial, choose your own music" option has been around since 
>> the
>> dawn of the 8-track, and we all know what a resounding success that was.
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