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[ajc_trw]

DTV subchannels have way more viewers than HD2s have listeners. Those subchannels are receivable with any DTV receiver, and are on cable. No one has HD radios.

With smartphones no one needs an HD radio. Not only are HD-2s available with equal to better quality but AMs are also available. And if you don't have an unlimited data plan you don't need to worry about it that much when most of these streams are 64kbit AAC+.

I think streaming gives me better results with KOLA, I know I get better results with KCBS & WPHT.

 

[MRFLASHPORT]

DTV subchannels have way more viewers than HD2s have listeners. Those subchannels are receivable with any DTV receiver, and are on cable. No one has HD radios.

With smartphones no one needs an HD radio. Not only are HD-2s available with equal to better quality but AMs are also available. And if you don't have an unlimited data plan you don't need to worry about it that much when most of these streams are 64kbit AAC+.

I think streaming gives me better results with KOLA, I know I get better results with KCBS & WPHT.

The problem is streaming is unreliable. I have both a Verizon Iphone on their sorry 3G EVDO-Rev A network and a Sprint HTC 4G LTE phone. Both networks are about neck to neck in the Atlanta area as far as street level raw dbM RSSI. Where I drive, the Verizon phone has become useless for streaming during "drive time", and constantly drops out altogether and reverts to 1XRTT and just can't plain keep up with a simple 64K or 128K stream. The problem is latency. Sending mobile data over an RF path is challenge for any system. When you add thousands of users clogging each sector, it gets to the point of uselessness.

Sprint's 4G LTE, when stationary, is flawless- at my home I get 32MB down with a 22-30ms ping time. I can stream for hours without a hickup. Start moving, even in areas of good RF coverage, and those numbers drop to 4-7MBPS and ping times jump into the 75-100ms or more. And keep in mind, this is during off peak hours. My Sprint phone hiccups on the same streaming sources in some areas that makes listening irritating.

This is where broadcast radio will always be king, so long as it remains in the dashboard.

 

[Ai4i]

This is where broadcast radio will always be king...

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The projected lifespan of this universe multiplied by the number of possible points, curved lines, and three dimensional objects at all locations and during all possible fragments of time is not any closer to always than one moment, the time it takes light to cross one elementary particle of matter, is, and that ratio is one to a nine with more nines after it than you could fit into the universe with each nine being the size of one elementary particle. This was told to me by the FSM.