[BC] RDS Receiver/Tuner

[Rich Wood]

------ At 09:13 AM 8/25/2006, John Buffaloe wrote: -------

>I had these in San Diego and New Orleans.  They worked well.  I never read
>the text to which you refer, I just plugged them in and watched the scroll
>go by.
>
>Be sure you get Rich's approval on the car rental thingy.

I'll grant a blanket approval with the warning that the car is likely 
to use magnetic levitation before IBUZ is usable in the mountains of 
New England ... or wherever else there are mountains or bumpy terrain.

With the release of the not-ready-for-prime-time Polk receiver I'm 
beginning to think there's a "Producers" scenario in this whole 
thing. "Springtime for IBUZ and iBiquity." Produce as many inadequate 
receivers at the highest prices you can hope for and couple that with 
AM IBUZ that makes an AM section unnecessary.

Create so many additional "radio stations" in each market that your 
analog unit ad rate goes down the toilet as agencies spread a limited 
budget among twice the number of stations. I realize $19 billion 
doesn't go as far as it used to but Warren Buffet might be interested 
in allowing Bill Gates to give $1.6 billion in grants to little radio 
companies like Clear Channel and Infinity to make the NAB's 
prediction come true.

No need to worry just yet unless you're an AM station. There won't be 
enough receivers among the glut of return authorizations until about 
3029. The receivers are inadequate for the price and the broadcast 
end of the system is inadequate. Sounds like a winner to me. We'll 
need Arthur Anderson to do the accounting to make the $1.6 billion 
look like something. I was going to start a business installing HDTV 
rooftop antennas and add IBUZ antennas at a reduced price. Potential 
customers looked at me strangely at the thought of an outdoor antenna 
for a table radio. I'm looking for a charitable organization other 
than the government to give grants to buy and install IBUZ receivers. 
No bites, yet.

This revolution is brought to you by the citizens of the Grand Duchy 
of Fenwick. It's a Peter Ustinov/Mel Brooks collaboration.

Rich