[BC] Interesting Streaming Demo

[Broadcast List USER]

OF COURSE, XM and (RU) Sirius radio COULD sound good, but they limit  
the data rate to the point where they don't.

PLUS, they use inexpensive codecs that make the situation even worse.

They have decided to have more channels and less quality.  Have you  
listened to the traffic and weather channels?  I played around with  
some early codecs in the early 80s, and turned them down to two bit  
encoding as a test and a joke.  It COULD be understood.  I don't think  
they sounded worse than Sirius/XM local traffic and weather or the  
"911" EAS channel.  Man, they are really awful.

But the standard channels are not much better.  They don't care.  They  
have defined the market, and now that the FCC stupidly and illegally  
allowed them to merge, we have no hope for improvement.  So, rather  
than competition, we will have the slow slide into death.  Oh, well.

--chip

On Feb 1, 2010, at 9:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 19
> From: "Greg Ogonowski" <greg at orban.com>
>
> Turn on your BIG computer speakers!
>
> Interesting streaming demo featuring XM 6.
> XM 6 was chosen for the difficult audio material of the time and to  
> demonstrate improved consistency.
> The exact stream details are on the actual Player.
> Note the bitrates of the two streams.
>
> http://www.opticodec.com/xm
>
> This demo will be up for only a short period of time.
> Share it with all that might be interested.
> XM should be.
>
> -greg.
> greg (a) indexcom.com
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