So I went over to the site that had alot of the hd radio channels from Clear channel and I noticed they were gone. I wondered what was going on cause I was trying to play one out of Rochester Ny. It was a 70s/80. Now all they have in its place is 4 new internet stations that is for alot of the other locations.
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KB1OKL said:HD is going the way of the Dodo.
You wouldn't know it from all the new HD products supposedly being planned. At next week's Hong Kong Electronics Show, iBiquity will introduce a "reference platform" designed to help developers make battery-powered portable HD Radio products that cost less and use less power.
Probably the most unusual is a low-cost, USB-powered HD Radio product designed to add HD Radio technology to a PC, a portable navigation device or any device featuring a USB port (like a Blackberry).
Read about it here:
http://www.rwonline.com/dailynews/index.cgi
According to iBiquity COO Jeff Jury, "The market has been demanding portable HD Radio products, and our partners (and they count Radio Shack as a partner) are anxious to begin development." That's news to me. I thought most manufacturers/retailers were blowing out their stock of HD Radios and not offering new products.
Hey, with these new tiny, low power Samsung Core-CR chipsets, maybe the Zune will get that HD Radio tuner after all.
C5
“USB-powered HD Radio product designed to add HD Radio technology to a PC, a portable navigation device or any device featuring a USB port.”
So why would I spend $60.00 to hear radio on my PC when the whole world is at my fingertips, including free music catalogs. The HD shills claim HD broadcasters have made available special jukebox programming only available on radio, but sooooooooo what? And I know radio is more than just music, but so far HD stations are just that, HD jukeboxes.
I’d sooner spend $87.00 for a 32GB Flash drive.
“The market (listeners) is demanding portable HD receivers?” that’s spin and hype! Manufactures maybe, but they have yet to sell any radios of any significance and the number is well over 60 different models that are currently available.
Sony Walkman with Digital Tuning is $37.99 on Amazon. And used $17.99.
When I can walk into Wal-Mart and find HD radio’s in this same price range I might buy one. I’m not spending $80.00 for a frigging clock radio simply because it’s HD enabled when $10.99 does the same dam thing, and sounds pretty good too! Joe the plumber and Joe six pack isn’t going to spend $80.00 for a clock radio either. It’s a pipe dream! Strubles licensing scam has kept pricing of HD radios artificially high. I suspect as the global economies tank, more people feel the same way too!
Despite the Hype from the Radio Alliance, 2008 will be another depressing year for HD radio sales.
Struble says “people actually call when HD transmitters go off the air.” Meaning people are listening. The real issue is dead air! I suspect nobody is paying attention to Jukebox Bob, because Bob is stuffed in closet someplace. And anybody else who is left in radio is multitasking to the max, keeping AM/FM running. Stations are cutting talent, again, and blowing out their promotional departments too! Stations can baily manage what they have now.
I did a search on Wal-Mart. I typed walkman radio and I found 738 pages of Ipods, Zunes XM plugin gadgets, radio flyers and everything else. Then I types portable radios, I found 27 pages, of zunes, ipods, XM plugin gadgets, cb’s and everything else. What does that tell you!
Strubles licensing scam has kept pricing of HD radios artificially high.
HD radio, obsolete out of the box.
So why would I spend $60.00 to hear radio on my PC when the whole world is at my fingertips, including free music catalogs. The HD shills claim HD broadcasters have made available special jukebox programming only available on radio, but sooooooooo what? And I know radio is more than just music, but so far HD stations are just that, HD jukeboxes.
I’d sooner spend $87.00 for a 32GB Flash drive.
“The market (listeners) is demanding portable HD receivers?” that’s spin and hype! Manufactures maybe, but they have yet to sell any radios of any significance and the number is well over 60 different models that are currently available.
Sony Walkman with Digital Tuning is $37.99 on Amazon. And used $17.99.
When I can walk into Wal-Mart and find HD radio’s in this same price range I might buy one. I’m not spending $80.00 for a frigging clock radio simply because it’s HD enabled when $10.99 does the same dam thing, and sounds pretty good too! Joe the plumber and Joe six pack isn’t going to spend $80.00 for a clock radio either. It’s a pipe dream! Strubles licensing scam has kept pricing of HD radios artificially high. I suspect as the global economies tank, more people feel the same way too!
Despite the Hype from the Radio Alliance, 2008 will be another depressing year for HD radio sales.
Struble says “people actually call when HD transmitters go off the air.” Meaning people are listening. The real issue is dead air! I suspect nobody is paying attention to Jukebox Bob, because Bob is stuffed in closet someplace. And anybody else who is left in radio is multitasking to the max, keeping AM/FM running. Stations are cutting talent, again, and blowing out their promotional departments too! Stations can baily manage what they have now.
I did a search on Wal-Mart. I typed walkman radio and I found 738 pages of Ipods, Zunes XM plugin gadgets, radio flyers and everything else. Then I types portable radios, I found 27 pages, of zunes, ipods, XM plugin gadgets, cb’s and everything else. What does that tell you!
Strubles licensing scam has kept pricing of HD radios artificially high.
HD radio, obsolete out of the box.
More iBiquity "rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic." New low-power chipsets? HD availability on a PC? Who cares? Nobody wants the product!
Nowadays consumers download music files, primarily free, if they want tuneage. If they want entertainment there's a multitude of analog AM & FM stations, the latter of which offer wider bandwidth than that available on the average mp3 player plus rock-solid reliable analog reception. Sat radio offers hundreds of commercial-free niche formats for a very low initial investment and a reasonable monthly subscription fee.
In this landscape doesn't anyone associated with iBiquity and the Alliance "get" how ludicrous it is to promote a hard-to-use, coverage-challenged, expensive "digital" radio platform that offers maybe a dozen more choices in large markets - and nothing elsewhere? Hello? HELLO???
iBiquity has taken a page from repressive regimes. Jury sounds like nobody so much as Baghdad Bob preposterously proclaiming there is "demand" for HD portable (or any HD) products. Seems that they think if the lie is big enough and loud enough there will be at least SOME suckers who will buy it. Notwithstanding recent evidence to the contrary, given how the industry and the public is increasingly ignoring iBiquity no matter how much loony umlaut they crank out.
Yeah. Real demand. That's why the local RS has one lonely, dusty $79 Accurian on the Manager's Special closeout shelf. In the back of the store. There's a spankin' new Circuit City here in Rochester. Guess how much HD Radio product they have on display??
Nowadays consumers download music files, primarily free, if they want tuneage. If they want entertainment there's a multitude of analog AM & FM stations, the latter of which offer wider bandwidth than that available on the average mp3 player plus rock-solid reliable analog reception. Sat radio offers hundreds of commercial-free niche formats for a very low initial investment and a reasonable monthly subscription fee.
In this landscape doesn't anyone associated with iBiquity and the Alliance "get" how ludicrous it is to promote a hard-to-use, coverage-challenged, expensive "digital" radio platform that offers maybe a dozen more choices in large markets - and nothing elsewhere? Hello? HELLO???
iBiquity has taken a page from repressive regimes. Jury sounds like nobody so much as Baghdad Bob preposterously proclaiming there is "demand" for HD portable (or any HD) products. Seems that they think if the lie is big enough and loud enough there will be at least SOME suckers who will buy it. Notwithstanding recent evidence to the contrary, given how the industry and the public is increasingly ignoring iBiquity no matter how much loony umlaut they crank out.
Yeah. Real demand. That's why the local RS has one lonely, dusty $79 Accurian on the Manager's Special closeout shelf. In the back of the store. There's a spankin' new Circuit City here in Rochester. Guess how much HD Radio product they have on display??
Once again Mr. Savage and Pocket respond with absolute clarity.
I forgot about Bagdad Bob; claiming victory while U.S. tanks roll by in the background. An apt symbol for iBiquity and HD Radio.
However, with so many chip makers on board I can't help but think that iBiquity gave up quite a bit to get them. Of course, if these chips can decode C-QuAM AM stereo along with HD than some good can come out of this.
But as Pocket observed, all of the ancillary services iBiquity has planned for HD Radio can already be accomplished on a smartphone or PC. HD Radio has come too late to the party.
C5
I forgot about Bagdad Bob; claiming victory while U.S. tanks roll by in the background. An apt symbol for iBiquity and HD Radio.
However, with so many chip makers on board I can't help but think that iBiquity gave up quite a bit to get them. Of course, if these chips can decode C-QuAM AM stereo along with HD than some good can come out of this.
But as Pocket observed, all of the ancillary services iBiquity has planned for HD Radio can already be accomplished on a smartphone or PC. HD Radio has come too late to the party.
C5
pocket-radio reported:
Hmmmm.
Do you think Mr. Stroibl was referring to AM or FM? If he was talking about FM HD, well then fine.
But if he was talking about to AM HD, then ya might all be interested to know that, according to one of the little birdies (not spurs!) with whom I am privileged to be acquainted, awhile back the HD for a large AM in a relatively large market went off for several days and personnel at the station said that they didn't receive a single telephone call. My little birdy friend said that this was a source of much humor at the station during that time.
Ah well. C'est la vie, mon capitain!
Struble says “people actually call when HD transmitters go off the air.” Meaning people are listening.
Hmmmm.
Do you think Mr. Stroibl was referring to AM or FM? If he was talking about FM HD, well then fine.
But if he was talking about to AM HD, then ya might all be interested to know that, according to one of the little birdies (not spurs!) with whom I am privileged to be acquainted, awhile back the HD for a large AM in a relatively large market went off for several days and personnel at the station said that they didn't receive a single telephone call. My little birdy friend said that this was a source of much humor at the station during that time.
Ah well. C'est la vie, mon capitain!
Let's just note here for the historical record - no comment is really necessary - how Strew-Bull is noting instances of "HD transmitters going off the air" as an opportunity for benchmark measurement of accomplishment for HD Radio.
Why are "HD transmitters going off the air" at all??
Did RCA brag about viewer complaints when color TV "went off the air?" Did FM operators puff up with pride over listener complaints of being "off the air?" (No. Because those services stayed ON the air.)
Why are "HD transmitters going off the air" at all??
Did RCA brag about viewer complaints when color TV "went off the air?" Did FM operators puff up with pride over listener complaints of being "off the air?" (No. Because those services stayed ON the air.)
I had seen a portable HD radio advertised on the HD radio website but the batteries are only good for 5 hours. I think I would rather wait until a portable one comes out for internet radio. The HD one has ho hum stuff for the channel. Like someone said why buy an HD when you can go on a computer and have the world at your finger tips. I predict 5-10 years HD will be gone especially if the portable internet radios come into being and you can get free wireless internet.
Carmine5 said:Once again Mr. Savage and Pocket respond with absolute clarity.
I forgot about Bagdad Bob; claiming victory while U.S. tanks roll by in the background. An apt symbol for iBiquity and HD Radio.
Joe Isuzu would also be a good spokesman along with Mr Haney.
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