Another HD radio collects dust

[nd2023]

I gave my girlfriend an Insignia portable HD radio for Christmas. Yesterday I noticed that none of the presets were set and it was buried in a mess, and its battery was dead.

I gave her an HD radio because I noticed she liked a certain HD2 format that she listened to on iHeartRadio. When I asked her about how she liked the HD radio, she told me that it didn't receive that HD2 station well. I told her that I didn't feel bad that she used it only once, because that was what I expected.

My Valentine's Day gift to her was something she will probably appreciate more, a large teddy bear that she will cuddle with at night. So there you have it, a teddy bear is more useful than an HD radio!

I'm just glad my attempt to spread HD radio didn't result in her telling me to buzz off.

 

[Barry]

When I purchased by Insignia portable radio, the cashier at Best Buy said it looked nice, and indicated she was interested in buying one. She asked how many gb. of songs it can hold. I answered that that it is a radio, not a mp 3 player. The girl seemed amazed that all that it was, for $40 (sale price), was a radio. She replied that no way is she spending $40 for just a radio.
I tried to explain it was a special radio that can receive extra stations. She repeated the above statement.

 

[nd2023]

It wouldn't cost much to have 2 or 4 gigs of flash memory in that device. Then it could store music on there. It already has the codec to decode HD radio. Perhaps it could convert the music to the HD codec so it wouldn't need an MP3 decoder and can store the equivalent of 10-15 GB of MP3s. Being able to record radio stations would be a plus. It's legal to have a device that can record radio stations (tape players anyone?), so it could record music from the radio stations and even tag the songs automatically if it's recorded in HD. It would then be a nice, cheap music player. A 32k HD radio station sounds good to most people, so storing music at 32k would sound good. This would be ideal for parents to buy for their kids since it wouldn't cost as much as an iPod and would have more features than an iPod shuffle, and it could record music off the radio so the kids wouldn't need to download music illegally.

 

[Play Freebird]

Here's an idea for a novelty HD radio, based on a patent issued in the 80's (long since expired -- so the original inventor wouldn't be owed any royalties) The original design included a cheap analog AM receiver, but this could easily be replaced with the guts of an "Accurian HD" or similar product failure taking up space in some Chinese warehouse.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=e9UvAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&dq=4521919&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=4521919&f=false

If this were offered in a store like Spencer Gifts, it might actually sell.

 

[KB1OKL]

Here's an idea for a novelty HD radio, based on a patent issued in the 80's (long since expired -- so the original inventor wouldn't be owed any royalties) The original design included a cheap analog AM receiver, but this could easily be replaced with the guts of an "Accurian HD" or similar product failure taking up space in some Chinese warehouse.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=e9UvAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&dq=4521919&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=4521919&f=false

If this were offered in a store like Spencer Gifts, it might actually sell.

Also easy to flush during a drop out.