[BC] IBOC "secrets" and my opinions.

[Barry Mishkind]

At 07:12 PM 3/25/2007, Kevin Tekel wrote
>But when will we know we've reached "the end"?  We've already waited five
>years with no real improvement.  Sure, maybe they've gotten the codecs to
>sound a bit better since 2002, but on the RF side, iBiquity has actually
>*loosened* their recommended RF mask, allowing more hash into the
>sidebands, since real-world data began to show that their system could not
>even meet its original spectral parameters.  And on FM, many IBOC stations
>have experienced a drastic *degradation* of their formerly "CD-quality"
>digital audio, due to the addition of HD2 and HD3 channels.  These are
>definitely not steps in the right direction....

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