GREATEST INVENTION EVER

[SHIFTY 1]

As Jonathon Schwartz says on 40's on 4, satellite radio is the greatest invention. Sports, talk, music, comedy. If you love radio, there's nothing like it. Curious why the stock is so active NASDAQ every day. but the subscription is well worth the price :

 

[K6JHU]

I live in the MON (Middle of Nowhere) and I tend to agree that my subscription is the best thing so far on my car radio.

There is a downside though and that is that I no longer spend a lot of my time on the road scanning through the terrestrial radio buttons trying to find a decent signal and trying to reduce the noise to signal ratio.

 

[TheFonz]

As Jonathon Schwartz says on 40's on 4, satellite radio is the greatest invention. Sports, talk, music, comedy. If you love radio, there's nothing like it. Curious why the stock is so active NASDAQ every day. but the subscription is well worth the price :

Satellite radio certainly "fine tunes" the programming of terrestrial radio. But internet radio fine tunes it even more. I believe that internet is the future of music radio.

 

[ronald54321]

Next to the internet and smartphone, it certainly is.

 

[K6JHU]

For those of you who live where cell phone service is better than 'problematical'.

 

[FRR]

Internet radio is no doubt the future. When I first subscribed to XM five years ago I loved the service, variety, and programming. The cost was reasonable and the programming on the decade channels was unique and fun. Now, the cost is high, the playlist has gotten shorter and the "extras" like the Top 6 three times an hour from different years and "IT" has disappeared faster than a dress on prom night. I find myself listening to Iheart Radio or my own music on the Ipod. I encouraged several friends to subscribe to XM several years ago and they all have dropped it. Internet radio doesn't really use up that much data and the variety is great. Such a shame. Sat radio could have really been different. When the Feds permitted the merger between Sirius and XM, and Mel didn't do one thing that he promised to get approval, we knew it was all over but the shouting. And it is. At the end of this month I'm done. But I sure will enjoy Iheart and other choices out there in internet listening. And if they all turn rotten, I've still got my Itune library.

 

[landtuna]

Internet radio is no doubt the future.

For music radio it is the future only if you like your music played at 64bps (or the occasional 128). Personally, I don't find 64 all that listenable and 128 only for certain types of music.

There may eventually come a technology that can replicate broadcast quality but I doubt it will be here in my lifetime. While I'm waiting I'll continue with good old FM and when that fades good old flash drive. ;D

 

[TheFonz]

Internet radio is no doubt the future.

For music radio it is the future only if you like your music played at 64bps (or the occasional 128). Personally, I don't find 64 all that listenable and 128 only for certain types of music.

I guess that sound quality really isn't that important to those of us who grew up listening to old scratchy mono 45s from the '50s and '60s. (And the static in AM radio).

 

[landtuna]

Internet radio is no doubt the future.

For music radio it is the future only if you like your music played at 64bps (or the occasional 128). Personally, I don't find 64 all that listenable and 128 only for certain types of music.

I guess that sound quality really isn't that important to those of us who grew up listening to old scratchy mono 45s from the '50s and '60s. (And the static in AM radio).

Ah, but you're WRONG Mr. Winkler! When FM came to my dusty little desert town in the 60's I was AMAZED at what I had not heard from familiar songs played here-to-date on AM. With the technologies introduced during the heyday of rock (60's, 70's and into the 80's) I can't imagine listening to those songs on anything poorer than 320bps. Even some of the 50's songs which have been remastered are so much better than back in the day.

I still have a pile of 45's but they don't see the needle of my turntable any longer. I had enough scratch, pop and whistle on shortwave. ;D

I think it is perhaps the more modern listeners who have never listened to anything better than 128 or <gag!> 64 through their Internet connection that will never miss good sound quality. Besides, at what bitrate does rap sound good, anyway?

 

[FRR]

Internet radio is no doubt the future.

For music radio it is the future only if you like your music played at 64bps (or the occasional 128). Personally, I don't find 64 all that listenable and 128 only for certain types of music.

I guess that sound quality really isn't that important to those of us who grew up listening to old scratchy mono 45s from the '50s and '60s. (And the static in AM radio).

Excellent point. And every improvement since that time just makes it sound even better. I listen to those great hits of the early rock era on Sat or Internet radio and marvel how good they sound now. Besides, I can't tell the difference between 64 and 128 rate. What I am listening to sure sounds better than those "old worn out 45s"

 

[PaulRAnderson]

The greatest invention ever is the power screwdriver. Satellite radio is second.

Paul

 

[landtuna]

Besides, I can't tell the difference between 64 and 128 rate.

It depends on the recording. Anything with high-highs or low-lows suffers a lot the lower the bitrate goes (everything else being the same). You wouldn't miss much on those old girl group songs but you'd noticed the difference on songs like "Hotel California" for instance.

Of course, you'd have to know there was something missing to miss it, right? ;D

 

[JohnnyElectron]

According to a tech magazine, here are the top 10 inventions:
1: Smartphone (I disagree)
2: Radio (I agree)
3: Television
4: Hypodermic Needle
5: Personal Computers
6: Portable Air Conditioners
7: Rotary Phone
8: Phonograph (yep)
9: Alarm Clock
10: Light Bulb

 

[K6JHU]

Where is fire and the wheel on the list

 

[JH_Radio]

Everybody uses Itunes these days. Why? CD is better sound. Cassettes and vinyl can sound excelent.
Am/FM is good also, though some is better then others.
We live in a world of compressed audio, and even though bandwidth has gotten better on the internet, nobody has offered uncompressed Wave PCM audio yet. Amazing when you think about the fact that movies as in MP4 etc is something that people would choose to download. I dont do movies, but my guess is that is a compressed format as well, so something is deffinetly missing (the VHS/DVD/Blue rey is better quolety.)

 

[RadioPhillyFan]

It's bitrate is worse then that of our AM radio in Philly... Not worth it in my mind. Great selection though. I also miss the local feel when listening.

 

[JH_Radio]

Philly AM's aren't the best either, since they broadcast in HD (wel lost of them do anyway)