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Great news from the UK

And I suspect something similar would be found in the US too. Auto enternainment systems are embedded in the car and controlled by the BCM (Body Control Module), so aftermarket sales are declining and few, if any, are buying radios individually anymore. Where this will end up is whatever is purchased with the car is what auto owners will use.

I'd say the growth of radio as a medium is going to become limited to what's already here, mainly because the growth of radio listening technology has completely stopped.
 
Kelly A said:
And I suspect something similar would be found in the US too. Auto enternainment systems are embedded in the car and controlled by the BCM (Body Control Module), so aftermarket sales are declining and few, if any, are buying radios individually anymore. Where this will end up is whatever is purchased with the car is what auto owners will use.

I'd say the growth of radio as a medium is going to become limited to what's already here, mainly because the growth of radio listening technology has completely stopped.
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I've seen past references regarding HD radio chips in smart phones and it's time to face the music. We are NOT going to see widespread acceptance of HD Radio into smart phones if at all.

With all the radios needed/required (BT, WiFi, LTE, GSM, etc, etc, etc) in mobile devices, why would any of these manufactures even worry about "radio" at this point.
 
Kelly A said:
Where this will end up is whatever is purchased with the car is what auto owners will use.
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I agree with you 100% on this. If it's in the car, it will continue for the time being. No one is buying radios for the home anymore. Can we all agree on that?
 
KB1OKL said:
From Radio World:

Buried right at the end of an article about "The effort to embed and activate FM chips in smartphones" is this little gem:


"In the U.K., DAB receiver sales have declined and the government has abandoned plans to switch off FM analog service."

more at:

http://www.radioworld.com/article/worldwide-fm-smartphone-effort-underway/272856
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I have just one question as I channel Larry King: “Whaddya care?”

What relevance does the adoption of DAB in the UK have to do with our system, or our style of radio in general? They're completely different systems on completely different bands trying to accomplish two different things. The success or failure of DAB is completely and utterly irrelevant to HD radio or digital radio adoption in the US.

Your blind hatred of anything "digital" on radio is a black mark on this forum. You have no vested interest in DAB reception or promulgation in the UK or in Europe, so why cheer every little setback to its success in their marketplace? It's arguably more popular in the UK and some European countries than HD radio is here… Ofcom backing down from a universally-acknowledged optimistic analog shutdown date is not news beyond the fact it took them this long to realize that digital radio should be supplementary to analogue, not a replacement.

You and I share some common viewpoints when it comes to digital radio broadcasts, especially with how crappy IBOC has been for us, but your religious fervor like quest to put down any form of digital radio in any venue or country is just embarrassing.
 
stewie said:
I agree with you 100% on this. If it's in the car, it will continue for the time being. No one is buying radios for the home anymore. Can we all agree on that?
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And yet we see statistics here all the time that only about 35 percent of listening takes place in the car. Someone (besides me, lol) MUST be listening at home, unless at-work listening is accounting for a huge 65 percent of all listening, which I'd find hard to believe.
 
tomservo said:
I have just one question as I channel Larry King: “Whaddya care?”

What relevance does the adoption of DAB in the UK have to do with our system, or our style of radio in general? They're completely different systems on completely different bands trying to accomplish two different things. The success or failure of DAB is completely and utterly irrelevant to HD radio or digital radio adoption in the US.

Your blind hatred of anything "digital" on radio is a black mark on this forum. You have no vested interest in DAB reception or promulgation in the UK or in Europe, so why cheer every little setback to its success in their marketplace? It's arguably more popular in the UK and some European countries than HD radio is here… Ofcom backing down from a universally-acknowledged optimistic analog shutdown date is not news beyond the fact it took them this long to realize that digital radio should be supplementary to analogue, not a replacement.

You and I share some common viewpoints when it comes to digital radio broadcasts, especially with how crappy IBOC has been for us, but your religious fervor like quest to put down any form of digital radio in any venue or country is just embarrassing.
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1. Digital radio is not successful in a country where the government was trying to force people to use it. They have been broadcasting it since 1990 in the UK.
2. They actually did it right, they set aside other frequencies for digital and it STILL was not successful which leads to the logical conclusion if it is not successful under those conditions why is it still being pushed and forced on us here? It has obviously been a lead balloon everywhere so far, can you point to one country in the entire world where it is being used and accepted by the majority of consumers, can you point out one country where it has supplanted analog radio? Can you point out one country in the world where a transition to digital radio would be considered successful? How many years has this been going on now? 10-15-20 years?
And 3. Many members here in the past have pointed to the UK as the holy grail of digital radio, as a successful analog to digital radio transition and how the US was going to follow suit without the mandate. Looks like Mecca has fallen.
At least Ford was smart enough to stop manufacturing the Edsel after just three years.........
 
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All I need in my next car are a great set of speakers, an amp and a flash stick reader. No radio at all.
 
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