Come on Apple...give Ipod owners what they want...RADIO!

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R.F. Burns wrote: "...I do have a question for you. What are you going to do when more and more IBOC stations sign on the air? Right now we have just gained another new one on FM and over the past month or so WNYC AM has put theri IBOC encoder back on tha air. The numbers are going up, not down..."

I've already greatly altered my listening habits. I know I'm not alone.

At home, I listen ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY to radio via a wifi Internet radio or a computer. Why? Always a very strong signal for every single radio station, no interference, no static, no multipath, no fading, no back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back spots on the music stations I prefer, usually near CD quality, unlimited worldwide selection - with even an all-oboe station!!! Actually, I like Digitally Imported's "Classical Guitar" station. This is a no-brainer.

I enjoy listening to Dennis Prager. In his talk show is on in Los Angeles on KRLA 870. But online, I'm able to listen on-demand, with all commercials removed. Pause playback to pour a cup of coffee or asnwer the phone, and resume listening at will. All free.

Lately, the only time I feel the need to fire up a "radio" is either work-related or to see if any HD-AM radio jammers are jamming away at night yet.

Well said vsa.

About R.F. Burns comment at the top:
Virtually no listeners care about, plan to buy or listen to HD radio, so why do you bother constantly counting the number of HD stations and claiming that as a measure of HD radio's success?
Dividing the tiny HD radio audience thinner and thinner seems more to be a measure of HD Radio's failure to attract an audience, rather then it's success.

Becaue if HD radio was such a failure stations would be spending the money to convert to digital. If HD is such a failure why do you bother to post here? What I mean, you keep coming up with negative things to say about IBOC, if I knew something I was obviously obssesed with was going to die I'd turn my attention to other matters. What will you guys do if IBOC dies? How will you fill that void? Of course looking at it rationally, IBOC isn't going to die any time soon. Keep dreaming.

The main subject in this thread is the false premise that the public is buying more expensive iPods, when all they really wanted was a radio. Radios are much cheaper. If that was true, why wouldn't the public just buy (much cheaper) radios instead of an iPods?
This premise is sheer nonsense. The public knows the difference between iPods and radios, even if the poster of this topic does not. The public bought iPods because that was what they wanted, not radios.

Broadcast management and owners have a long history of buying into many failed technologies, projects, products, talent, people, ideas, shows and concepts. It's no different with HD radio. CBS spent a great deal of money getting Katie Curic, then put her in the wrong job. Check their track record. Your statement

Becau(s)e if HD radio was such a failure stations would be spending the money to convert to digital.

is just more of the same chronic self deception.
Watching new digital media cut into their dominant position has lead to the desperate, failed move (HD radio) to compensate for their loss of control. Lust for power is often a more obsessive compulsion then greed.

If HD is such a failure why do you bother to post here? What I mean, you keep coming up with negative things to say about IBOC, if I knew something I was obviously obssesed with was going to die I'd turn my attention to other matters. What will you guys do if IBOC dies? How will you fill that void? Of course looking at it rationally, IBOC isn't going to die any time soon. Keep dreaming.

A discussion requires more then one point of view. Your promotional sales pitch for HD radio, does not. Is that what has your bloomers in such a terrible bunch?

Your dreams of HD radio displacing all other digital new media, are just your convenient self deception.

 

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Becaue if HD radio was such a failure stations would be spending the money to convert to digital...

Because HD is something broadcasters want, not the general public.