[BC] Re: HD Receiver returns

[Jerry Mathis]

I've read on another list that, in an interview, Ibiquity CEO Bob Stubel has
said that full-blown IBOC will probably not happen, stating that the
Government has no incentive to end analog broadcasting. If true, the only
advantage IBOC will give stations is the ability to broadcast more than one
audio channel, for however long IBOC lasts.

JM


On 2/16/07, WFIFeng at aol.com <WFIFeng at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 02/16/2007 11:27:59 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> richwood at pobox.com writes:
>
> > Not really. Processing separately is annoying when the mode keeps
> >  switching back to analog.
>
> Sure, if the difference is really dramatic... but it can be subtle, with
> gentler processing on the digital to highlight the dynamic range... but
> not to
> extremes.
>
> > I'm told one of my local stations is
> >  processing separately but they sound identical in both analog and
> >  digital.
>
> I can't help but wonder, then, "Why bother"? Just use one processor, run
> the
> analog thru the necessary delay, and there you go.
>
> > Right now a clean blend when you lose digital is more
> >  important than the alleged high quality of digital.
>
> Then what *is* the point? IMHO, it would be better to use the entire
> digital
> bandwidth exclusively for auxiliary formats, like an SCA would be.
>
> > My guess is that
> >  the GM or PD might have a receiver in his or her car and complains
> >  about the irritating blend if they're processed differently. It's a
> Catch-22.
>
> Indeed.
>
> >  Willie, Willie, Willie. Get with the program, however dull it might
> >  be. Read the press releases.
>
> You mean those puff pieces we occasionally see posted here? Written by the
> scriptwriters who make the toy commercials for children? ;)
>
> >  It's Seedy Quality on FM and FM quality
> >  on AM. Just because I can't hear it on my IBUZ receiver doesn't mean
> >  it isn't there.
>
> I LOL whenever I read that "Seedy Quality". That's a very good pun!
>
> FM quality on AM... hmmm... ya know, come to think of it, it *does* remind
> me
> of FM when I tune across it... "blank" channels on FM make a similar
> hissing
> noise.
>
> Willie...
>