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HD Radio’s History of Innovation and Future of Growth
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The fact is that nobody buys alarm clock radios today. We use our smart phone, or a web connected device that is far more accurate.
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Kevin
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If you have a smart speaker your radio is streaming.
I have the Sangean HDR-15, the only alarm clock that has HD. It has good reception on both AM and FM. HD slightly improves the sound quality and removes the noise that is almost always present on analog, especially with weaker signals that make stereo unreliable. As others have said, it's the licensing requirement that is why HD radios are still so rare. While it's easy to make an analog radio, only a handful of companies spend the extra money for license. Most HD devices have a sticker on them saying that HD Radio is licensed by Ibiquity.
Didn't even need to bring up the Youtube since I got that from your description! If this had come up in my physics class I probably would have had it figured out, my crystal set built, working and explained in about 45 minutes while the rest of the Class of 2002 would maybe have had it worked out in a couple of 1-hour periods? But then I was far more adept at radio and electronics than most of my classmates who were into passive entertainment like television, IRC and that new "World Wide Web" thing.
But who is searching out a radio station. Most of them are either using Apple Music, or Spotify, or Amazon Music.
It's evenly split among music sources, and streaming of FM is about 11% as of 2019.
Do radio streams count in the ratings book?
The new SG-114 is another HD clock radio, and for completeness, all of Sangean’s 7 HD radio models offer alarms. I use my HDR-16 as my morning alarm (radio rather than buzzer), and set a radio alarm on my HDR-18 at the office certain days.
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Kevin
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Yes, here in Detroit we have a few but the numbers are mostly 0.1‘s or 0.2’s but they do register. I’ve only seen 3 different stations streaming numbers here in Motown.
The SG-114 appears to be a black version of the HDR-15. I meant to say that the Sangean clock radio is the only HD radio in the clock radio form factor, of course, many radios have clock functions.
And the SG-108 appears to be a white version of the HDR-14. That's an odd departure from Sangean's model naming system, isn't it? Why didn't they just append a B (for black) or W (for white) to the existing model numbers for these "new" radios instead of pretending they're some entirely new line of "SG" models? Especially since *all* of Sangean's other HD radios to date have model numbers intuitively beginning with "HD"? Weird.
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Harvey_Dogg
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So, is HD radio too little too late? I actually thought about buying an HD transmitter.
Here's an article published today about innovation and new technologies in radio:
Tech Predictions for Radio and Digital - Radio World
Tech Predictions for Radio and Digital - Radio World
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Kevin
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After the patent for HD Radio runs out in 2023 could it be possible to put HD Radio in some models of Bluetooth speakers? Some do include FM radio, which is a nice feature to have.
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Harvey_Dogg
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More stations needed to go HD 2 decades ago for HD radios to have become popular.
HD transmitters are quite costly. But, anyone can put a digital stream on the internet with a junked 19 year old computer.
"Alexa play XXXX"
HD transmitters are quite costly. But, anyone can put a digital stream on the internet with a junked 19 year old computer.
"Alexa play XXXX"
Yeah, but not anyone can put the digital stream on the internet and pay for all the royalties for the music they play.
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Kevin
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Higher royalty fees, means more streaming services could go for broke. There has been quite a few streaming services that shut down in 2020 due to COVID-19 and the fact they couldn’t handle the lack of advertisers and the royalty fees together, these internet stations went under and will never come back. The average internet streaming station is lucky to get 30 listeners, of course it’s more if you’re IHeart or Spotify. But if you’re small start up streaming service, good luck trying to make a profit after royalty fees.
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