"HD Radio Self-Noise" (a technical paper)

[700WLW]

Len14043: "Most of the listening occurs in my car. I purchased a JVC HD radio for $199, which also happens to be a great radio for DXing. Plus that fact I wanted to replace my stock radio for one with a CD player. So actually I didn't spend that much extra money seeing that I was going to get a new radio anyways. I actually got hooked on an HD2 from Dayton and sometimes listen to it over my PC. I'll purchase an home HD radio sometime, but I'm in no hurry."

VERY few have purchased HD radios, because of the lack of interest in terrestrial radio and the outrageous price of HD radios - the Receptor HD dropped to 13,000 recently on Amazon's electronics rankings. I went to Besy Buy yesterday and still no HD radios of any kind - plenty of Satellite radios, stand-alone and in-dash, plus the new way-cool Stiletto. And, plenty of radio-enabled cell phones from Sprint and Cingular. With portable HD radios being vaporwear for a few more years, because of power requirements, this will kill any chances for HD Radio, while all these other technologies are being developed at a blistering rate. Not one HD stand-alone, or combination, in-dash radio at Best Buy - retailers are apathetic towards HD Radio, because they realize it will not sell.

 

[dbdigital]

Economist Milton Friedman once said that "it's in the self-interest of the business community to get government on its side"

We all know the problems associated with IBOC and yet thanks to pressure from the NAB, iBiquity and media conglomorates, the FCC has approved this technology and will no doubt soon approve it for 24-hour use on AM.

Although the recent scandal involving a suppressed report on media consolidation has prompted an investigation of the FCC, scandal is nothing new to those who have been following the agency's actions over the past years (who can forget the Great Translator Invasion?).

The FCC is long overdue for a complete overhaul or total dismantling and building something fresh. And this time maybe legislators can create an agency that is truly responsive to the public's interests.

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[SUPERCASTER]

Economist Milton Friedman once said that "it's in the self-interest of the business community to get government on its side"

We all know the problems associated with IBOC and yet thanks to pressure from the NAB, iBiquity and media conglomorates, the FCC has approved this technology and will no doubt soon approve it for 24-hour use on AM.

Although the recent scandal involving a suppressed report on media consolidation has prompted an investigation of the FCC, scandal is nothing new to those who have been following the agency's actions over the past years (who can forget the Great Translator Invasion?).

The FCC is long overdue for a complete overhaul or total dismantling and building something fresh. And this time maybe legislators can create an agency that is truly responsive to the public's interests.

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The increased digital interference, repetative, bland, recorded or networked programming, and abandonment of live local, and suburban coverage only provide more reasons for the public to turn to newer technologies as an alternatives.

 

[dbdigital]

Economist Milton Friedman once said that "it's in the self-interest of the business community to get government on its side"

We all know the problems associated with IBOC and yet thanks to pressure from the NAB, iBiquity and media conglomorates, the FCC has approved this technology and will no doubt soon approve it for 24-hour use on AM.

Although the recent scandal involving a suppressed report on media consolidation has prompted an investigation of the FCC, scandal is nothing new to those who have been following the agency's actions over the past years (who can forget the Great Translator Invasion?).

The FCC is long overdue for a complete overhaul or total dismantling and building something fresh. And this time maybe legislators can create an agency that is truly responsive to the public's interests.

db

The increased digital interference, repetative, bland, recorded or networked programming, and abandonment of live local, and suburban coverage only provide more reasons for the public to turn to newer technologies as an alternatives.

Exactly. The other alternative is to avoid the FCC altogether (if you don't count WiMAX providers needing FCC approval to use frequency spectrum for that service).

In their report on media consolidation, The FCC noted that while the number of radio stations went up during the time the study was conducted, the number of formats went down. And listeners have noticed it.

The 'Fading Frequencies' story illustrates how fed up listeners are with the musical format chairs the stations play as favorite stations disappear.

Internet, not HD, radio is what will help radio survive and retain listeners.

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