HD Radio & Apple -- What Would Jesus Do?

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A piece by By Jerry Del Colliano that I thought some people here might like to discuss.



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Posted: 07 Jan 2008 07:22 PM CST

By Jerry Del Colliano

I always get a kick out of it when someone asks "what would Jesus do". We're hearing it a lot these days. Who knows? How could you ever be sure.

But when it comes to HD Radio and Apple together -- I think even Jesus would pray. Pray a lot.

The radio industry is setting itself -- and its advertisers -- up for yet another in a long sustained series of disappointments by speculating that Apple's rumored decision to inject its cool into a very uncool device will jump start HD Radio. If Jobs, at the MacWorld Convention in a few weeks, unveils HD on-board boom boxes with iPod docking stations, it will wind up meaning nothing to the radio industry.

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Link: http://insidemusicmedia.blogspot.com/2008/01/hd-radio-apple-what-would-jesus-do.html

 

[Radioman100]

Jesus was crucified almost 2000 years ago. He wouldn't have any electricity, so I'm not sure what he would do with any HD Radios or Apple products.

 

[dbdigital]

If biblical history offers any insight, Jesus would be concerned with issues far more serious than some technology designed to make money.

Of course, if Jerry is talking about Jesus Valencia, the guy who cleans my neighbor's pool, maybe he'd buy an HD Radio.

But I have to laugh at some of the posters here who have spent months deriding Steve Jobs and the iPod/iPhone and now that Apple is offering technology that marries iTunes with HD Radio, they're ready to kiss his ring.

db

 

[Radioman100]

But I have to laugh at some of the posters here who have spent months deriding Steve Jobs and the iPod and now that Apple is offering technology that marries iTunes with HD Radio, they're ready to kiss his ring.

Who exactly would that be? Care to provide any examples?

 

[dbdigital]

But I have to laugh at some of the posters here who have spent months deriding Steve Jobs and the iPod and now that Apple is offering technology that marries iTunes with HD Radio, they're ready to kiss his ring.

Who exactly would that be? Care to provide any examples?

You ask me for proof? I'm still waiting for you to provide me with definitive proof that internet radio is doomed...something other than your personal fantasy, I mean.

db

 

[radioskeptic]

Yes, Jerry is always happy to be quoted (with attribution), you don't need to quote at such length when a link will do

On hyperlink-capable websites -- or when using formatted (as opposed to plain-text) email -- you can just copy the hyperlink headline from the post on www.insidemusicmedia.com (e.g., "HD Radio & Apple -- What Would Jesus Do?" for yesterday, 1/7/07) and it will work.

But on sites like www.radio-info.com, where hyperlinks won't work, you can go to the address box and copy URL you find when you use Jerry's hyperlink (in this case, http://insidemusicmedia.blogspot.com/2008/01/hd-radio-apple-what-would-jesus-do.html) and post that.

 

[R.F. Burns]

But I have to laugh at some of the posters here who have spent months deriding Steve Jobs and the iPod and now that Apple is offering technology that marries iTunes with HD Radio, they're ready to kiss his ring.

Who exactly would that be? Care to provide any examples?

You ask me for proof? I'm still waiting for you to provide me with definitive proof that internet radio is doomed...something other than your personal fantasy, I mean.

db

I guess your answer is no since you refuse to provide any examples yourself. You can't make a statement such as you did and when pressed to give examples, use the fact that another poster didn't provide proof of an allegation. Even if you are correct in your assertion, that only means that you both are probably making this stuff up.

 

[Radioman100]

I've provided ample proof that web radio is doomed, right from the horse's mouths. I can't think of any better "proof" than the CEOs of the biggest webcasters saying it themselves, and I've provided numerous links to those quotes.

On the other hand, db here makes allegations about people on this board he can't back up. Typical...

 

[dbdigital]

I've provided ample proof that web radio is doomed, right from the horse's mouths. I can't think of any better "proof" than the CEOs of the biggest webcasters saying it themselves, and I've provided numerous links to those quotes.

On the other hand, db here makes allegations about people on this board he can't back up. Typical...

You've provided me with nothing but some vague reference to something someone said and you didn't even provide a quote from it at that.

It's no fun going through the garbage of these old posts but here's a few:

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,60825.0.html

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,60833.0.html

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,66963.0.html

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,67605.0.html

It takes a great deal of arrogance to predict the end of internet radio. Because to do so would be to predict the future.

For that matter, I could just as easily predict the end of HD Radio. There are certainly enough indicators for it: Lack of public acceptance, lack of a broad selection of radios, HD Radios not working as they should, the disaster of HD AM. But can I safely predict the end of HD-R? No, nor can anyone.

BTW, here is an interesting article on the new table top radios from CES:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/07/smbusiness/ces_radios.fsb/?postversion=2008010709

Guess what's missing in them?

db

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Jesus was crucified almost 2000 years ago. He wouldn't have any electricity, so I'm not sure what he would do with any HD Radios or Apple products.

Since he is still alive in the form of the Holy Spirit - his followers employ HD radio to increase the number of Christian formats available to listeners. Here is a good example from my friend Jim Hoge:

http://www.radioy.com/

What is even more remarkable is that somehow - he makes this work with translators of his own station on first adjacent frequencies in Daytona Beach and Palm Bay! How - I will never understand but it obviously works!

 

[Radioman100]

Or maybe it broke the TOS here? Look around the other forums. Whenever someone simply copies and pastes text from another site, it gets the same treatment.

 

[Tom Wells]

One time I said the HD codec screeched like a weasel and it was gone pretty quick.

 

[clouseau]

I have seen it done here and have done it before myself, where do you think the ahooga post came from?

An obtuse reference to the "Copyrighted Material" was made by someone when you posted the "Ahoooga horn" piece. For those of us who have been here a while, it's a given. We all need to get over it. The rest of us have.

Tom, as for your post, I would suspect a glitch in the softare running the board. Because I'll bet I can say...

While I don't agree with it, I've seen somene post that they thought the HD codec screeched like a weasel.

HD CODEC SCREECHES LIKE A WEASEL.

As Larry the Cable Guy would say..

Now THAT'S funny.

Clouseau

 

[Radioman100]

I have seen it done here and have done it before myself, where do you think the ahooga post came from?

An obtuse reference to the "Copyrighted Material" was made by someone when you posted the "Ahoooga horn" piece. For those of us who have been here a while, it's a given. We all need to get over it. The rest of us have.

Tom, as for your post, I would suspect a glitch in the softare running the board. Because I'll bet I can say...

While I don't agree with it, I've seen somene post that they thought the HD codec screeched like a weasel.

HD CODEC SCREECHES LIKE A WEASEL.

As Larry the Cable Guy would say..

Now THAT'S funny.

Clouseau

I've honestly never heard a weasel screech. A friend of mine had one growing up, of course he called it a ferret. Likeable animal!

On the subject of codecs, I've found just about any codec can be made to sound like garbage if you drop the bitrate low enough. IMO, 48k is about the practical limit of the HDC or any AAC type codec. At least I wouldn't push it any further.