[BC] Re: HD Receiver

[Robert Meuser]

I don't think you just re-invent existing technology. It has to morph 
according to unpredictable business and social factors. You may go in 
thinking it is one thing and come out with something that looks totally 
different.

R

Xmitters at aol.com wrote:

>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
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