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"HD Radio is DOA (Dead On Arrival)"
http://worldsupercaster.blogspot.com/
"HD RADIO-A FLAMING BURNOUT! "HD RADIO IS A DOG!"
To quote: "Here's the word from KMXE's chief engineer as he told me personally. Some HD equipment had fried awhile back - not very different from your KTNQ's HD equipment that also fried. After a forced return to analog while they awaited a new unit, the new owners (also the owners of the Los Angeles Angels) agreed with their CE's advice and have decided to keep KMXE analog-only for the forseeable future. They have increased the audio bandwidth well beyond HD's 5khz. They are very pleased with the results since they dumped HD. The decision had NOTHING to do with HD suitability. Their CE says HD is a big disappointment and also causes way too much adjacent channel noise. He says HD Radio is not even close to what had always been promised! ---------------------------A technology has to be pretty awful for a station to first spend the kind of money they must do to go HD, then to feel happy about dropping it! Every "off-the-record" conversation I've had with radio engineers in Los Angeles, the verdict is unanimous so far. HD Radio is a dog!"
HD Radio-SEND IT BACK!-WASHINGTON POST REVIEWER
To quote: "Last week, I packed up the Boston Acoustics Recepter Radio HD, the subject of my review in late April, and shipped it back to the company. " "Digital FM just doesn't sound that much better than analog. Digital AM does, but it's too hard to find and is still limited to daylight hours. "
HERE IS THE REST OF THE STORY:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/email/2005/03/30/EM2005033001399.html
HD Radio-RIAA Lawsuits coming?
LOS ANGELES, May 16 (Reuters) - The recording industry on Tuesday sued XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. , alleging its Inno device that can store music infringes on copyrights and transforms a passive radio experience into the equivalent of a digital download service like iTunes. A spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America, comprising major labels such as Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group , Warner Music Group Corp. , EMI Group Plc and Sony BMG, said the suit was filed on Tuesday in New York federal court. The suit accuses XM Satellite of "massive wholesale infringement," and seeks $150,000 in damages for every song copied by XM customers using the devices, which went on sale earlier this month. XM, with more than 6.5 million subscribers, said it plays 160,000 different songs every month.
HERE IS THE REST OF THE STORY:
http://yahoo.reuters.com/misc/Print...78_2006-05-17_00-10-03_N16129937&special=true
HD RADIO PROMOTION-JUST PUTTING MORE LIPSTICK ON THE PIG
Advertising expert David Ogilvy once asked, "Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer?" "Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot."
To quote: "On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous. "William Bernbach echoed Ogilvy's statement. "Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it. "But it was Professor Charles Sandage who turned Ogilvy's complaint into a manifesto: "Advertising is criticized on the ground that it can manipulate consumers to follow the will of the advertiser. The weight of evidence denies this ability. Instead, evidence supports the position that advertising, to be successful, must understand or anticipate basic human needs and wants, and interpret available goods and services in terms of their want-satisfying abilities. This is the very opposite of manipulation."
Here is the link to the rest of the story:
http://www.wizardacademy.com/showmemo.asp?id=249
Digital HD Radio-More interference and aggrivation then value.
To quote: "Building penetration tended to be poor, especially at distances greater than 20 miles from the radio station’s antenna. My initial burst of enthusiasm had quickly tempered to confusion. Could I be doing something wrong? How could I not pick up these stations? After all, I live about 16 miles as the crow flies from the Empire State Building . Technical Difficulties. I went to the Ibiquity Web site to find that there were at least 13 stations broadcasting in HD in New York . One by one I tried to tune them in, and one by one I was met with frustration. Constant fiddling with the antenna yielded part-time successes. I managed to get Z100’s second channel for about three seconds, then three seconds of dead air, then on, then off. This gave new meaning to the term picket-fencing. Digital is unforgiving. It’s either on or it’s off. I took the radio upstairs to the bedroom. This time I had some success. WPLJ, WNEW, WAXQ, and several others sounded beautiful in HD. But mind you, every time I changed the channel, I’d need to go fiddle and reposition the antenna. Sometimes, as the digital signal faded in and out, a phasing sound would occur. On the AM side, continuous play with the antenna yielded a promising digital WNYC AM, but WOR’s digital signal amounted to a great big hum. The hotly advertised second channels were still mostly nowhere to be found. Intermittent signals were achieved for WNYC, WAXQ, and WLTW. Twice the radio froze up altogether and I had to unplug it to “reboot” it. After considerable tinkering, I was finally able to listen to Z100’s new music channel at length. And the 32 kbps stream had plenty of kick and dynamic range. But clearly, something was wrong. This whole thing was just not working as advertised. Terrestrial radio might be hyping a technology that isn’t quite ready for prime time. If broadcasters are attempting an apples-to-apples comparison with satellite radio, right now they’ll lose.''
HERE IS THE LINK TO THE FULL STORY:
http://www.fmqb.com//article.asp?id=184531
http://worldsupercaster.blogspot.com/
"HD RADIO-A FLAMING BURNOUT! "HD RADIO IS A DOG!"
To quote: "Here's the word from KMXE's chief engineer as he told me personally. Some HD equipment had fried awhile back - not very different from your KTNQ's HD equipment that also fried. After a forced return to analog while they awaited a new unit, the new owners (also the owners of the Los Angeles Angels) agreed with their CE's advice and have decided to keep KMXE analog-only for the forseeable future. They have increased the audio bandwidth well beyond HD's 5khz. They are very pleased with the results since they dumped HD. The decision had NOTHING to do with HD suitability. Their CE says HD is a big disappointment and also causes way too much adjacent channel noise. He says HD Radio is not even close to what had always been promised! ---------------------------A technology has to be pretty awful for a station to first spend the kind of money they must do to go HD, then to feel happy about dropping it! Every "off-the-record" conversation I've had with radio engineers in Los Angeles, the verdict is unanimous so far. HD Radio is a dog!"
HD Radio-SEND IT BACK!-WASHINGTON POST REVIEWER
To quote: "Last week, I packed up the Boston Acoustics Recepter Radio HD, the subject of my review in late April, and shipped it back to the company. " "Digital FM just doesn't sound that much better than analog. Digital AM does, but it's too hard to find and is still limited to daylight hours. "
HERE IS THE REST OF THE STORY:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/email/2005/03/30/EM2005033001399.html
HD Radio-RIAA Lawsuits coming?
LOS ANGELES, May 16 (Reuters) - The recording industry on Tuesday sued XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. , alleging its Inno device that can store music infringes on copyrights and transforms a passive radio experience into the equivalent of a digital download service like iTunes. A spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America, comprising major labels such as Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group , Warner Music Group Corp. , EMI Group Plc and Sony BMG, said the suit was filed on Tuesday in New York federal court. The suit accuses XM Satellite of "massive wholesale infringement," and seeks $150,000 in damages for every song copied by XM customers using the devices, which went on sale earlier this month. XM, with more than 6.5 million subscribers, said it plays 160,000 different songs every month.
HERE IS THE REST OF THE STORY:
http://yahoo.reuters.com/misc/Print...78_2006-05-17_00-10-03_N16129937&special=true
HD RADIO PROMOTION-JUST PUTTING MORE LIPSTICK ON THE PIG
Advertising expert David Ogilvy once asked, "Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer?" "Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot."
To quote: "On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous. "William Bernbach echoed Ogilvy's statement. "Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it. "But it was Professor Charles Sandage who turned Ogilvy's complaint into a manifesto: "Advertising is criticized on the ground that it can manipulate consumers to follow the will of the advertiser. The weight of evidence denies this ability. Instead, evidence supports the position that advertising, to be successful, must understand or anticipate basic human needs and wants, and interpret available goods and services in terms of their want-satisfying abilities. This is the very opposite of manipulation."
Here is the link to the rest of the story:
http://www.wizardacademy.com/showmemo.asp?id=249
Digital HD Radio-More interference and aggrivation then value.
To quote: "Building penetration tended to be poor, especially at distances greater than 20 miles from the radio station’s antenna. My initial burst of enthusiasm had quickly tempered to confusion. Could I be doing something wrong? How could I not pick up these stations? After all, I live about 16 miles as the crow flies from the Empire State Building . Technical Difficulties. I went to the Ibiquity Web site to find that there were at least 13 stations broadcasting in HD in New York . One by one I tried to tune them in, and one by one I was met with frustration. Constant fiddling with the antenna yielded part-time successes. I managed to get Z100’s second channel for about three seconds, then three seconds of dead air, then on, then off. This gave new meaning to the term picket-fencing. Digital is unforgiving. It’s either on or it’s off. I took the radio upstairs to the bedroom. This time I had some success. WPLJ, WNEW, WAXQ, and several others sounded beautiful in HD. But mind you, every time I changed the channel, I’d need to go fiddle and reposition the antenna. Sometimes, as the digital signal faded in and out, a phasing sound would occur. On the AM side, continuous play with the antenna yielded a promising digital WNYC AM, but WOR’s digital signal amounted to a great big hum. The hotly advertised second channels were still mostly nowhere to be found. Intermittent signals were achieved for WNYC, WAXQ, and WLTW. Twice the radio froze up altogether and I had to unplug it to “reboot” it. After considerable tinkering, I was finally able to listen to Z100’s new music channel at length. And the 32 kbps stream had plenty of kick and dynamic range. But clearly, something was wrong. This whole thing was just not working as advertised. Terrestrial radio might be hyping a technology that isn’t quite ready for prime time. If broadcasters are attempting an apples-to-apples comparison with satellite radio, right now they’ll lose.''
HERE IS THE LINK TO THE FULL STORY:
http://www.fmqb.com//article.asp?id=184531