[BC] HDradio & our digital future

Glen Kippel glen.kippel
Thu Dec 21 09:40:20 CST 2006


On 12/21/06, WFIFeng at aol.com <WFIFeng at aol.com> wrote:
<SNIP!>

But FM and TV did not render the existing AM sets virtually useless. If AM
> stations decided to "throw the big switch" and go all-digital, all analog
> sets
> would be instantly rendered useless. There are over 800 million of them
> out
> there. That's a *lot* of sets to replace, thus a lot of ticked-off people.
>
> <SNIP, snip, snippety-snip>



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Yeah -- ticked-off enough to just forget the MW band entirely.  (If it
becomes all digital, it won't be the "AM band" any more.)  They will go
elesewhere, like internet "radio."


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