[BC] Re: HD Receiver

[Xmitters@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/14/07 12:01:15 AM Central Standard Time, 
broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:

<< Don't forget, though... as the technology progresses, the hackers progress 
 right along with it. :) Make such a device available to anyone who can 
easily 
 secret it away into their dungeon laboratory, and it's going to yeild its 
 secrets in short order. ;) Once they managed to get it to start spewing its 
data, it 
 wouldn' tmuch longer before the encryption was broken. Just look at how 
 "long?" it took to decrypt DVD's for example. I believe it was literally 
minutes.
 
 Every time "Big Brother" comes up with a better mousetrap, the hackers are 
 already several steps ahead of them with a better (and very busy) mouse. 
Release 
 the hack into the wild, and it's a done deal.
 
 Willie... >>


Willie:

You make some very valid points :-)  OK, let's trash my original idea of 
storing every song ever recorded in this new fangled HD receiver. I'm still 
intrigued with the notion of marrying HD radio, music downloading and personal music 
collection management into one device. 

How about this:  Play the music over the station like we do now. Integrate 
the HD receiver with a cellular phone, mass storage device and CD/DVD player. 
The station plays a song and I push a button if I like that song. The title and 
author of that song is saved and a connection is made over the cell to a 
download site.  My favorite song is now stored in the receiver. Any time I play one 
of my CD's, all songs played are stored in the receiver. I now have an 
appliance that manages all of my music, regardless of where it comes from. if I'm 
out in the sticks and no stations are available, I play from my stored songs. 
Just like I do now with tapes and CDs, but I want one box to do it all.

You could even do audience research by allowing the user to "subscribe" to an 
audience survey company. Real time audience research information would be 
possible by using that cellular connection! And sure, there are a lot of problems 
and legal issues, privacy issues with what I describe. And yes, this is 
probably many years away, assuming we ever see it.

Remember the old days of IMTS mobile telephone service? You had to apply to 
the FCC to get your mobile phone licensed, then you bought an account with the 
telco. You had this big, ugly control head with a bunch of buttons on it, in 
the passenger compartment with the radio drawer in the trunk. I'm remembering a 
Motorola Pulasr II IMTS mobile phone I almost bought. 

What? A mobile phone that fits in a shirt pocket?! You can call anywhere in 
the world?! You can even take pictures with it?! Why would ayone use a mobile 
phone to take pictures?! It automatically logs the calls you make and the calls 
you missed?! Everyone could afford one?!  There is not enough radio spectrum 
for that! What are you, nuts??!! Interesting where we've come in 30 years, 
yes? 

Jeff Glass
Northern Illinois University