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Did anyone check this out?

Too bad most of the listeners will suffer from a decreased signal to noise ratio and noticable noise during quiet passages due to the presence of what are certainly parasitic oscillations.

They are parasitic as they suck the value out of the analog to further the evil designs of the cartel.
They are parasitic as they in every way behave as the nasty spurious byproducts good RF design was intended to avoid.

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Thank you I'll shut up now.
 
SUPERCASTER said:
I listen to 5.1 surround at much better then HD Radio quality using the same codec HD radio uses, but at a much higher quality bitrate. Best of all, NO HD RADIO is necessary, or desired. Listening on Tuner2 is truly, totally free! No hype, RF interference, jamming, or expense.
www.tuner2.com
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Ya know - that's great - but it has absolutely nothing to do with HD Radio.
 
good point elcheapo.......it all has to do with radio content, across its many platforms.

i like broadcasting, "real quality radio" but honestly with the current state of hd radio what does it really offer to the station owners and or listeners........

ibiquity was still claiming in july that three thousand stations would be online by the end of 2oo6 the number just reached 1,000....this information has been in the press,online,and spun onair....

its a good sounding concept, but it really is looking each day more like broadcasting has been shot in the foot again.....by hd and the prolonged rollout of equipment.
 
tankedsecondchance said:
it really is looking each day more like broadcasting has been shot in the foot again.....by hd and the prolonged rollout of equipment.
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Broadcasting has been shot in the foot all right, but not by HD. Broadcasting shot itself in the foot by thinking that this tech is going to be their savior, and is going to get back the listeners they've lost to other media.

You said it yourself. What will save radio, if it can be saved, is content. When every perceptual study on radio comes up with the same conclusion...that analog radio quality is acceptable to the vast majority of listeners...there isn't going to be any demand for this product. OTOH, the secondary channels are going to turn out to be an economic disaster, because of their tiny coverage area and because they will never have enough audience to justify ad rates that will make them pay their own way (at whatever point they start running commercials). They will further fractionalize an already fractionalized FM dial, doubling or tripling the number of stations without any economic basis for doing so.
 
tankedsecondchance said:
good point elcheapo.......it all has to do with radio content, across its many platforms.

i like broadcasting, "real quality radio" but honestly with the current state of hd radio what does it really offer to the station owners and or listeners........

ibiquity was still claiming in july that three thousand stations would be online by the end of 2oo6 the number just reached 1,000....this information has been in the press,online,and spun onair....

its a good sounding concept, but it really is looking each day more like broadcasting has been shot in the foot again.....by hd and the prolonged rollout of equipment.
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Yes, it is currently only 1000 and iBiquity is HOPING for 2,000 by the end of the decade - iBiquity is giving stations a big break on the fees for stations that sign up now, but it doesn't look like there is much interest ! :D
 
ElCheapo said:
SUPERCASTER said:
I listen to 5.1 surround at much better then HD Radio quality using the same codec HD radio uses, but at a much higher quality bitrate. Best of all, NO HD RADIO is necessary, or desired. Listening on Tuner2 is truly, totally free! No hype, RF interference, jamming, or expense.
www.tuner2.com
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Ya know - that's great - but it has absolutely nothing to do with HD Radio.
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www.tuner2.com
www.shoutcast.com
Better quality then HD, more stations, and same codec as HD Radio, without any of the interference or expense, and surround sound (as you linked to). Truly free, unlike HD Radio falsely claims.
The post is all about how HD Radio, and it's cartel, and lobbyists are peddling a defective digital system, with false advertising, and having no benefits to the listener/consumer, who can get better, elsewhere, free, including surround sound (which was the original posted link.)
 
SUPERCASTER said:
www.tuner2.com
www.shoutcast.com
Better quality then HD, more stations, and same codec as HD Radio, without any of the interference or expense, and surround sound (as you linked to). Truly free, unlike HD Radio falsely claims.
The post is all about how HD Radio, and it's cartel, and lobbyists are peddling a defective digital system, with false advertising, and having no benefits to the listener/consumer, who can get better, elsewhere, free, including surround sound (which was the original posted link.)
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Now, this is an example of a post that has nothing to do with HD Radio and is a blatant attempt to hijack the thread.
 
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