[BC] RE: HD Radio -- Folks we have to get it right!

[Bernie Courtney]

and with most broadcasters jumping on the multichannel bandwagon, and
ratcheting the bit rates of each channel down, IBOC and XM will both be on a
level playing field -- both sounding like crap!

But both are DIGITAL so clearly that must mean they are better and
simple-minded me must just be missing something wanting at least the same
quality that exists on 'ancient' analog technology.

Bernie

On 10/17/05, Robert Orban <rorban at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Actually, XM's average bit rate per channel is about half of HD's 96 kbps.
> Of course, XM's codec is aacPlus, which is almost as good as you can do at
> these bit rates. (aacPlusV2 with Parametric Stereo is better yet.)
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> Bob Orban
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