[BC] HDRadio

[Dana Puopolo]

The irony is that HDTV audio is substantially better then IBOC audio (and
especially IBOC stations with secondaries - HDTV audio simply blows that
away!).

-D

------ Original Message ------
Received: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:47:04 PM EDT
From: Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] HDRadio

------ At 08:14 PM 8/2/2006, DHultsman5 at aol.com wrote: -------

>  HDTV  has a government mandate for analog sign off.   If you  are in the
TV
>receiver business you will build sets....and none of us can deny  that
prices
>have dropped significently.

Also, HDTV has something unique to offer. IBUZ has little more than 
deceptive claims that it's CD quality on FM and FM quality on AM when 
it's neither. In my market its coverage is far less than analog, the 
secondaries have nothing to fall back on in less than perfect signal 
areas and the analog/main mode switching, when processed separately, 
is annoying as Hell and happens very often.

No one is spending much effort on showbiz quality programming because 
there's no one to listen. Chicken and egg. Until there's programming 
there's no incentive to buy excessively expensive receivers to get 
voicetracked jukeboxes. CBS believes in it so much that they've fired 
the people who could make it happen.

It's marketed by the Keystone Kops.

Rich


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