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HD Radio for PC

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Where can I find a decent HD radio tuner card for my PC (Windows/Linux)? The TV tuner card in there works great! I can watch local channels for free. My card actually has a FM tuner on it, but it doesn't work with the HDTV antenna attached. I want to listen and record HD radio on my computer. But, cannot afford the expensive PCIe HD radio cards on eBay. The experts on the other forums recommended attaching a car radio to my PC. I don't think anyone would run a car radio on top of a computer....
 
Recommendations to run a car radio with your computer just show the unavailability of HD tuners available nowadays, you are about as likely to find an HD radio card for your computer as you are are likely to find a Victrola card or a silent movie card.
 
Car radios with HD capability are generally high dollar items unless you can find one out of a wreck. Alternatively, if you can find a portable HD radio with a line out feature or make the headphone output work you can record off that on the PC.
 
landtuna said:
Car radios with HD capability are generally high dollar items unless you can find one out of a wreck. Alternatively, if you can find a portable HD radio with a line out feature or make the headphone output work you can record off that on the PC.
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line out or headphone output? That wouldn't produce the right quality audio. It would probably sound monotone.
 
radiosystem said:
But, cannot afford the expensive PCIe HD radio cards on eBay.
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The reason those cards are expensive is the HD Radio format is a patented system, and those cards include the license fee from the manufacturer. All other broadcast media, like TV and FM, are no longer patented, so there is no license to pay. One of the things holding back HD is that fee. When the patent runs out, those cards will be cheap.

The ones I saw on eBay were $100...how cheap do you want it?
 
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My suggestion would be to find the internet stream of the channel desired, or wait until after mid-October when Sangean brings out their FM-AM-HD Radio mini boombox, for around $125-150 or so. It would have a headphone output, it's based on the PR-D5/PR-D15 radios with have stereo headphone jacks.

Good luck either way.
 
radiosystem said:
line out or headphone output? That wouldn't produce the right quality audio. It would probably sound monotone.
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I've done both and the sound is similar to CD quality (depending upon the original range). It probably would depend greatly on your equipment though.
 
I was in high school 1958-1962 and you younger guys here wonder why I think those were the golden days of pop music and radio (yes, even AM).
 
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