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"Digital radio comes belatedly to America"

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"Digital radio comes belatedly to America"

"Like DAB, HD Radio removes the hisses and whistles from an AM signal, making it sound more like FM. Applied to FM, it delivers audio as pin-sharp as a CD. But the killer feature of HD Radio is not so much the quality of its sound, but the way it saves broadcasters from having to seek a separate set of frequencies—and pay additional licence fees—when adding digital channels to their programming." :D

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9314581

Farce ! :D
 
"Sangean Spiffs Up HDT With HDT-1X"

"Sangean introduced an upgraded version of its HD Radio component tuner, with enhancements it says were driven largely by customer feedback."

http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0100/t.6539.html

Another exaggeration and farce - I know exactly, where this "consumer feedback" came from and about how many radio-geeks were encouraged to give feedback to Sangean. Unbelievable ! :D
 
"Sangean introduced an upgraded version of its HD Radio component tuner, with enhancements it says were driven largely by customer feedback."

Now I have a reason to buy another HD receiver! 8)
 
Where the "consumer feedback" that you cann "farce" came from is another forum, one I can't mention here but participate in, where a Sangean employee who goes by the name of "Master Thesus" asks customers WHAT THEY WANT, what they like, and what they don't. They incorporate this input from REAL CUSTOMERS WHO OWN THEIR PRODUCTS, not nay-sayers who don't, into the next generation. Sangean offered 50 of the new model to members of this other forum at a discount price. They went VERY quickly.
 
scanman1 said:
"Sangean introduced an upgraded version of its HD Radio component tuner, with enhancements it says were driven largely by customer feedback."

Now I have a reason to buy another HD receiver! 8)
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How many Sangean HD radios are you planning to buy before they make one that actually performs correctly?

Radiopilot
 
Just 2. I already have the HDR-1 table radio and was waiting for Sangean to fix the bugs in their original HDT-1 model before purchasing my first component tuner. 8)
 
I for one am GLAD America's entry into digital radio AND tv were "belated". Japan has had HDTV for years. They got an analog system with no multicast capability, no digital surround, etc. The UK and Canada got an L band solution that's horribly expensive to implement, and may never serve the whole country. Now the UK system IS popular...more digital than analog radios are sold. But if a single tower site goes down, they lose EVERY DIGITAL SIGNAL TO A MARKET! The (significant) downside of putting all your eggs (radio signals) in one basket (transmitter facility). Our system is BETTER. And I never thought I'd say, or believe that. I thought back in the 90s we really missed the boat when the FCC rejected L-Band for the US.

All that's needed for things to fall into place is some agreements between FM stations and their AM brethren for the AMs to supply multicast content to the FMs. THAT is a free-market solution, and overdue.
 
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