[BC] From NAB Newsletter

[Robert Orban]

At 09:00 PM 7/17/2006, you wrote:
>From: "Jim Tonne" <tonne at comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: [BC] From NAB Newsletter
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> > Look at cell phones. The early ones ran a few hours
> > and were both large and heavy.
>
>Agreed and an excellent example of what you are saying!
>The cellphone example, true as it is, took a couple of
>decades to get thoroughly resolved.  If it takes 20 years
>to get IBOC receivers up and running, then I see a problem.

Thanks to cellphone developments over the last 20 years, semiconductor 
manufacturers now know how to make very low power digital receivers and 
DSP. There is no reason why they can't leverage these techniques to IBOC. 
It's not going to take another 20 years.

bob Orban