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It's still pride radio but they are now using K-BIG HD2. I haven't heard that in a while. But i notice they updated their playlist. Its sounding pretty awesome. Not the same playlist or songs they been playing the last 2 months. They added alot of new music. ;D
 
calguy said:
Unfortunately few will ever hear it...
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I think more people will hear it. My friend got a new camry. Her radio had HD radio on it. I'm thinking toyota is making it standard with the radios. ;)
 
Thats only just happening now in select models, could be a while before any great numbers of cars have them. Right now, very few receivers out there.
 
And even in new cars that have HD, how many of those buyers will actually use HD, since they don't need it to get their current favorite stations? I suspect buyers in the younger demos are more interested in mounts or connectors to plug their itunes player on than HD radio, which many consumers, even young hip ones, still haven't even heard of.

HD Radio is still a trainwreck with more cars piling on all the time.
 
The deal with HD Radio in new cars is this: At the current rate people are hanging onto the cars they have, it'll be 11 years before most people are driving what are now contemporary cars. So, even if every one of them had HD radio, it'd be more than a decade before "everyone" had it in their cars. For the most part, the guys at the dealerships don't understand and don't explain HD radio. Each manufacturer's HD setup is different. Some allow you to access HD-2 and HD-3 by just turning the tuning knob or pressing "seek" once the HD signal locks in. Others require you to press a "multicast" button. Still others require you to press in the tuning knob, which opens up a menu of secondary and tertiary channels.

In other words, the average driver will have to read the owner's manual to understand how to listen to HD. And we all know nobody reads the owner's manual.
 
I was surprised...my new Hyundai Genesis Coupe came with HD radio as well. Took a minute to figure it out, but when it works, it's not bad...
 
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