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HD Radio confirmed in Microsoft ZuneHD

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MoldaMania182

"Zune HD comes with a built-in HD Radio receiver so users can listen to higher-quality sound than traditional radio on the go. Users also will have access to the additional song and artist data broadcast by HD Radio stations as well as additional channels from their favorite stations multicasting in HD. If you don't like the song playing on your station's HD channel, switch to its HD2 or HD3 channels for additional programming."

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/zune-hd-is-official-heading-your-way-this-fall/
 
This just goes to show that HD radio is doomed. Hmmm, I wonder if the radio will do AM HD. I guess these "failing" companies haven't gotten the memo that HD radio is a failure. Maybe a letter writing campaign is in order from some of our more prolific fellow posters. Why, including this technology might cause the demise of Microsoft !!
 
On the contrary, RF: I think that HD Radio's thumping worldwide success is "just the ticket" to leapfrog Zune's .0003% market share of portable music devices, way past that floundering stupid little Apple iPod.

Conquering the world - with "HD in the van!!" Onward and....ummm...(what was that next part again?)

(Hey - you started it!!) :D
 
MoldaMania182 said:
"Zune HD comes with a built-in HD Radio receiver so users can listen to higher-quality sound than traditional radio on the go.
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Does it handle quadraphonic too?
 
Two technological losers for the price of one!!!!!! A match made in Heaven! ;D

Does Bill Gates even use a Zune? I'd bet 1/10th of his hourly pay that he has an iPhone!
 
Man I bet the range is um... at least 2 or 3 miles with a tin foil hat on, incidentally who's going to pull the wagon with the paralleled car battery's in it?
 
Ever see the ear buds that come with a Zune? Those will now be the HD antenna...as if HD didn't have enough problems already...
 
I can't help but wonder how much free advertising the HD Radio Alliance pledged to Microsoft to promote the ZuneHD and other Microsoft products. Near-bankrupt fools.

I have seen tons of iPods/iPhones/Touches and even own and heavily use one of the Apple critters. I have yet to meet or see a human being who owns a Zune. I probably need to get out more often.
 
"Zune HD is officially heading your way this fall!" (And back to the store for a refund about two weeks after that.)

Nor have I ever seen a human being using a Zune. Just imagine the cool/wow factor among gadgetphiles:
"Wow, Dude, COOL ZUNE! How come you didn't get an iPod??"

I get a kick out of: "If you don't like the song playing on your station's HD channel, switch to its HD2 or HD3 channels for additional programming." If ever there was a marketing pitch made by someone who knows ZERO about the industry he's writing about that's it. Yep...let's promote TUNEOUTS....as if the main-channel listener is going to decide, then-and-there, to tune to completely different formats.

That's not the way radio listeners function in the real world. For example, if they're country listeners and a tuneout occurs they'll tune to the COMPETING station with the SIMILAR format, dumkopfs, not a dissimilar product offered on an HD sub by the same station.

Think HD listening behavior will differ significantly from analog listening behavior?? It's "if you don't like the song that's playing, tune to another station using the tuner's handy up/down tune buttons."

Duh!
 
vsa said:
I have seen tons of iPods/iPhones/Touches and even own and heavily use one of the Apple critters. I have yet to meet or see a human being who owns a Zune. I probably need to get out more often.
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The cult of Apple is huge and loyal. They're some of the most well designed consumer electronics devices out there, but their mediocre sound quality and high price keep me away. I've become a big fan of open systems and Apple's iTunes is closed, as is their App Store for iPhones. Yuck. I've had enough closed-mindedness with my Sony Hi-MD minidisc player. Two words: Sonic Stage. Yuck x a million. But the sound quality and battery life of the player are just in another league compared to an iPod of any type so it stays.

Lately however I've been using an ancient iriver H320 brick. Got a new battery for it and it's good as new. Better, really, thanks to some free software online called Rockbox which transformed it into a whole new machine. Now it can show album art, do dynamic playlists, play videos, record mp3 and wav direct, has unlimited user eqs, crossfades between tracks and a whole bunch of other stuff that I'll never use.

Combine all that with the fact that it records (line in and mic), has a built-in FM radio, does drag-and-drop file transfers and has really good sound quality and I have to wonder how Apple gets away with the beautiful garbage it sells. Oh and it was sold in like 2004. Get with the times, Apple! Nope, they're too busy rejecting apps for the iPhone that might show text from the Karma Sutra. ::)

So as much as I dislike MS, I say, “Go for it, Zune!”
 
Zach, you've won me over! I'm going to have to dump my mediocre sounding iPod and get a shiny new Zune from Microsoft! I just can't wait to hear that "high definition" 32 kbps stream-- boy, I bet that will just knock the socks off my iPod's low-fi audio!

While I'm at it, I probably should think about dumping my "closed source" MacBook and getting an "open source" computer running genuine Microsoft Windows (tm) with Windows Genuine Advantage technology. I admit I've kinda gotten out of practice applying patches, rebooting, and scanning my drives.
 
So let me get this straight: you take one loser product, merge it with another loser product and you end up with...a winner? Never seen that in real life.

But then this is the make believe world of HD Radio where 1.5 million chipsets sold magically translates to 1.5 million HD Radios sold.

C5
 
Carmine5 said:
So let me get this straight: you take one loser product, merge it with another loser product and you end up with...a winner? Never seen that in real life.

C5
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Um.....Republicans and Sarah Palin? Ooops. Nevermind.
 
audioguy said:
Zach, you've won me over! I'm going to have to dump my mediocre sounding iPod and get a shiny new Zune from Microsoft! I just can't wait to hear that "high definition" 32 kbps stream-- boy, I bet that will just knock the socks off my iPod's low-fi audio!

While I'm at it, I probably should think about dumping my "closed source" MacBook and getting an "open source" computer running genuine Microsoft Windows (tm) with Windows Genuine Advantage technology. I admit I've kinda gotten out of practice applying patches, rebooting, and scanning my drives.
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Now nowhere did I say the Zune is a top-notch audio performer, nor did I imply that the awful HD technology was going to make it better than an iPod. I was just hating on iPods, period. ;D
 
As a follow up, we have this declaration from Inside Radio: "Microsoft may help (HD) radio with Apple" (what's wrong with these kids, can't they write? It should read: 'Microsoft may help Apple with (HD) radio').

http://www.insideradio.com/pdheadlines.asp?phid=564694&PT=Today's+Top+Stories

Gee, I was under the impression Apple didn't need any help bringing HD Radio to their products...if they wanted it in their products. And, so far, I have never heard them say they wanted it.

C5
 
PR Newswire is nothing more than an internet version of those companies which distribute "Press Releases" via fax - they're corporate pitch-and-brag sheets, written by the companies making the announcements. There is no "news" contained therein worthy of being so called.

PR Newswire sends us endless nonsense "releases" daily to our news e-mail address. They are invariably deleted without being read.

This piece consists of iBiquity, Alliance member stations and group managers and MS dweebs congratulating one another. Just another Mutual Admiration Society meeting on the deck of the Lusitania while U-Boat torpedoes are silently closing on the ship below the waterline.
 
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