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HD RADIOS IN HOUSTON

The funny thing about the map is since the economic crisis for CC, the HD channels have been dropped in Beaumont / Port Arthur, along with the constant ads urging you to buy a HD radio, not that I ever saw one in a store here.

I actually asked at Best Buy and Circuit City (before their closing) and the resultant blank looks on the store personnel faces were priceless.
 
I got that same blank look from the guys in a few Radio Shack stores. When I asked for an Accurian radio; they had to go look it up. For awhile, they had them on the shelves. Problem was, they couldn't demo them very well; because, most of the time, they wouldn't pick up the HD signal inside their stores' metal structures. So, they took them off the shelf. You can still order one from them.

IMHO, even with the proposed power increase; HD is still going to be a lost cause on indoor sets. Supposedly, there is a new portable radio out for about $70. But, even that won't help a technology that never quite measured up to the expectations.
 
That's a lot better than my experience at Best Buy.

As recently as a year ago, nobody at the Best Buy on Hwy 6 in Copperfield had any idea what I was talking about when I asked if they had any HD radios.

The floor salesmen and even their sales manager ALL thought I was talking about satellite radio. They'd never heard of HD radio.
 
As I mentioned in an earlier thread, I broke down and bought a used demo HD tabletop radio on ebay just to see what I have been missing. Other than KUHF HD-2 which offers unique news/talk programming, Houston HD radio is a vast wasteland. Cox offers an oldies channel presented with zilch personality and on its HD3 channel, a rebroadcast of the NOAA weather station! Now that took a big chunk of the programming budget! What a commitment! Right now, my HD receiver's best use is to lean file folders against on my credenza...at some point it will most likely get relisted on ebay.

Long live INTERNET RADIO forever!
 
FilioScotia said:
That's a lot better than my experience at Best Buy.

As recently as a year ago, nobody at the Best Buy on Hwy 6 in Copperfield had any idea what I was talking about when I asked if they had any HD radios.

The floor salesmen and even their sales manager ALL thought I was talking about satellite radio. They'd never heard of HD radio.
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Lol!!!! Same happend to me when I went to the Frys Electronics store ja ja. They didnt know what I was talking about, they wanted me to subscribe to Sirius Radio..
 
mrtexmex2007 said:
...when I went to the Frys Electronics store ja ja.
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That's ha ha, not ja ja. Not all Best Buy associates are clueless, though. I've gone to a couple that knew about HD radio. They have bookshelf systems, boomboxes and car audio options. One guy at Circuit City told me I was confused with XM and HDTV, though.
 
I walked into a mall in Dallas two years ago.There was an HD radio setup in the front of a Brookstone.The sales guy seemed very knowledgable about the Boston Acoustics HD radio on display, even told me of a few stations that broadcast in HD. Too bad the store was in a mall where radio reception is horrible.
 
Unfortunately most electronics store employees are just as ignorant about HD radio today as they were about HDTV ten years ago. Sometimes you run into someone who is tech savvy, but most are clueless.
 
When I went into a very well known store to attempt to get an HD unit for my car about 2 years ago, I was told that I was the first person asking for one. They had to order it. That being said, I have it in my house, car and office. I like it. The biggest problems are the horrible marketing that says zero about the product and the fact that it's impossible to find a unit for less than $100... if you can find one at all.
 
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