• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

CCR AND MICROSOFT PARTNER ON NATIONAL HD DATA PLATFORM

tankedsecondchance said:
interesting twist ..........

a national platform......http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070108005503&newsLang=en
Click to expand...

Very interesting article - thanks ! Looks, like it uses existing FM signals - actually, this may be good news, as possibly iBiquity is giving up on IBOC, over the traditional broadcast bands, since IBOC has generated little interest, and causes adjacent-channel interference, with only 60% the coverage of analog. Luckily, all that matters, is that IBOC remains unfeasable, during nighttime AM broadcasting. I would assume, that iBiquity has seen the writing-on-the-wall with IBOC, with only a few tens-of-thousands of HD radios sold, over two years.

http://direct.msn.com/About/default.aspx

I wonder, what FM frequencies they are using, because it is already in our service area ?
 
tankedsecondchance said:
interesting twist ..........

a national platform......http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070108005503&newsLang=en
Click to expand...

"As a thank-you to current subscribers and an incentive to those who haven't yet signed up, Microsoft is offering an additional three free months of MSN Direct service to all yearly subscribers. The subscription price is $59 for a full year (with three months free)* or $9.95 a month (with the first month's subscription free)."

http://www.suunto.com/suunto/main/a...8673942412&FOLDER<>folder_id=1408474395903543

This is just a gimmick - who's going to pay for silly gimmicks, that act as glorified pager systems ! Almost, everyone has a cell phone, and for $20/month, can get Internet access, instead !

Fossil Wrist Watch

http://www.amazon.com/Fossil-Wrist-...1_1/103-7657844-6437456?ie=UTF8&s=electronics

This baby is ranked 40,000th in electonics !

Looks like MSN Direct is real popular, too:

http://www.google.com/trends?q="msn+direct"&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Now, we can say: HD Radio - a gimmick, within a gimmick ! Everyone, hates Microsoft, anyway ! LOL ! :D
 
This will succeed because, well, all of Microsoft's ventures do, right? ;)

Will this continue Microsoft's trend of wildly successful consumer ventures? It's too Zune to tell! ;D
 
Hey, buddy. Gotta smoke?
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom