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HD radio false advertising - really!!

Savage said:
Well, I'd say "neither," but note that the possible results you can expect will be different.

At BB you'll get this from the Blue Shirt: ??? ??? ???

At happy hour you could get anything from "Cute, Tex, but the vocational training center is down the street" to "Yeah, and I need to hook up with a handsome millionaire, so don't block the view" to....yep, the good ol' drink down your pants.

Please report back on how your HD pick-up line worked out. We prurient types want to know.
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I'll broadcast it live on an HD2 station located in the middle of nowhere that doesn't stream.

Is HD radio even worth it for someone to spill their drink on me?

If I give a girl I meet at a bar an iPod, she would love me. If I give her an HD radio boombox, she will probably crack it over my head. That just shows how "sexy" HD radio is. "But it has HD..."
 
Savage said:
Well, I'd say "neither," but note that the possible results you can expect will be different.

At BB you'll get this from the Blue Shirt: ??? ??? ???

At happy hour you could get anything from "Cute, Tex, but the vocational training center is down the street" to "Yeah, and I need to hook up with a handsome millionaire, so don't block the view" to....yep, the good ol' drink down your pants.

Please report back on how your HD pick-up line worked out. We prurient types want to know.
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Savage I just blew lemonade through my nose!
 
OUCH!! Milk through the nose is one thing, acidic citrus drinks are quite another.

"I just try to capture the spirit of the thing" - Doofus journalist Dickie Dunn, "Slap Shot"
 
OK, I just looked at the Best Buy's customer reviews...the boom box is pretty much downrated. Presets will disappear when unplugging the boom box, batteries wear out quickly like a huge SUV guzzling gas. No AM radio inside. I assume the boom box is made in China. (I haven't seen this Insignia yet)
 
ddsparxx said:
Presets will disappear when unplugging the boom box,
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OK - major gripe with manufacturers here. Serial EEProms that hold their memory when power is removed have been available for 30 years, they cost pennies in large quantities - so WHY do the presets have to disappear on any consumer item?! This has been my gripe about car radios for years. There is no reason why customized settings ever have to be lost when power is removed.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
ddsparxx said:
Presets will disappear when unplugging the boom box,
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OK - major gripe with manufacturers here. Serial EEProms that hold their memory when power is removed have been available for 30 years, they cost pennies in large quantities - so WHY do the presets have to disappear on any consumer item?! This has been my gripe about car radios for years. There is no reason why customized settings ever have to be lost when power is removed.
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My car radio loses its presets when the battery dies. They all reset to 87.7 when I jump start it. I had a weak battery in the winter of 2008 and I had to jump start often. One reason I was too lazy to change my battery for 3 months was because I liked Pulse 87.7, and so I didn't mind all my presets being 87.7. It kind of forced me to not listen to any other station.
 
I liked walking through auto junkyards in the old days and pushing the buttons to see what stations were preset.
It's nice how the mechanical systems never ever forgot anything.
 
I walked through Frys, Home Depot, Walmart, and Target during the Christmas shopping excursions. About all they had for sale were boom box style portables, clock radios, an occasional portable. No HD radios anywhere - no mention of them in a display, no logo. This is in a major city (Houston).
 
I bought a computer last weekend at the Rochester BB. Same deal: no sign of HD anywhere. Not even the Insignia portables. I didn't bother the blue-shirts to see if they had any in stock but not on display; the store was typical pre-Christmas pandemonium and they were beyond busy without having to go scout up some obscure item I had no intention of buying anyway.

We used to do unofficial "audience surveys" by walking through mall parking lots and noting where the car radios were set. Just peer at the analog dial through the window and check the appropriate box. If you weren't in New York City with 100+ signals, it wasn't hard to figure out which station they were tuned to.
 
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