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Is HD REALLY worth it?

paul vincent zecchino said:
Doesn't that make me one of about three hundred million Americans who see stooge-radio for the scam that it is?
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Do tell...where are these three hundred million Americans "who see stooge-radio for the scam that it is?" You say, and I quote, "Besides, how can one debate HD cheerleaders? Make a point, they change the subject. Make another, they blat shuffled statistics. Question them, and they piously moralize. As with everything HD, nothing is on the level." Wow. I guess you're one of us, then.

I'm sure that you have solid proof of each of these people, or even these people collectively stating that HD Radio is a scam, right? I mean, you're above making wild claims...after all, that's what the HD Cheerleaders do.

As for the respect, no, there is nothing more to that.

By the way, you still haven't addressed any of the points made to you. Instead, you just keep changing the subject, or questioning motives. Hmmm. Where have I heard that before?
 
Dear Friends, and Admirers of "The Most Thoroughly Tested Radio System In History" -


Do my gentle-hearted love offerings in praise of HD stooge-radios give you gas?

Then you'll need an entire bottle of Clanzoflat (r) to digest my latest article.

It appears on today's Etherzone. Here's the address:

www.etherzone.com/2007/zecc032007.shtml


Good health to all!

Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
20 March, 2007
 
AM HD noise, sure. I don't doubt it. But I've yet to hear ANY recording of noise generated on a well designed (not the cheapest 20 dollar Walkman at Wal Mart) FM analog radio caused by HD.

IF IT EXISTS, PROVE IT...post the sound of interference caused by HD, and PROVE that it's caused by HD. That isn't too much to ask for, is it? Simply that you back up your claims of interference with a recording demonstrating your point?
 
Why, every right thinking man knows that 'there is no known interference from HD radio'.

How can one tape that which does not exist? Unusual request, if you ask me.

What was that an old radio fan said, several posts ago, something about no 'interference with statistically signifigant signals'? Is that the name of a new DVD?

First, EastBLOC fervently denies interference exists.

Then, from another corner of its turkey snout, Stooge-Radio Zentral claims - thus admits - interference can be reduced by getting half the AM stations off the air.

Which one is it? Which false tale stinks the least today? Would you like your ice cream garnished with dog-doot, or today's special topping, Castro's loose-stool water?

Absurd. HD interferes. HD doesn't interfere, u.s.w.

How can the undersigned worthless scribe even begin to reply to points, much less supply tapes of interference 'which does not exist', when HDBund stumbles on its own fabrications?

Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
20 March, 2007
 
The HD information isn't frequency modulated, so a properly designed FM analog tuner, with proper "capture" effect, will ignore the HD...just as a well designed FM tuner will play right through thunderstorms, flourescent lights, noise from computer monitors, etc...all of which would disturb AM. FM is immune to such noise sources. So again, if it exists, it can be demonstrated. If you can't demonstrate it, then your self-serving attempt at clever banter accomplishes nothing. Some here are attempting to engage in meaningful dialog, demonstrating out points with recordings which illustrate what we're talking about. Are others wasting space, and time (theirs and ours?) Each of us must judge for ourselves!

In a discussion of whether technology performs as claimed or not, is an objective demonstration of a problem you claim exists too much to ask for? Or is it that which SHOULD BE DEMANDED before anyone makes up his or her mind?
 
Yeah, yeah, 'self-serving attempt at clever banter'. Pious moralizing, par for the course.

We've heard interminable rationalizatioins re proper FM demods will not see the HD...

So, why, now, do broadcast engineers publicly state they've lost FM stations a town away to some HD outlet a channel or two adjacent? Are they making things up? Do they belong to some vast anti-stoogeradio conspiracy?

HD has serious problems. They're not fixable. The fundamental premise is hopelessly skewed and seems to have been confabulated by computer wizards who know nothing of radio.

Build a mansion on a lopsided foundation, and it's sure to topple.

We hear the same nonsense about AM. 'A properly functioning AM detector will read the analog and reject HD sidebands, which cancel anyway, so there will be no interference'...then, as like suspects interrogated, their story changed:

"HD does not interfere with AM radio. The problem with billions of radios is that their
detectors are defective."

Does Team EastBLOC mean to say we bought billions of defective radios? Then, quickly, call a product liability lawyer. He'll take it from there.

Which brings us to another sunny point, one lawyers will savor for years:

Were high-minded dismissals spoken in good faith?

In retrospect, the industry will rue the day they sorely underestimated listeners, many of whom know all about HD and summarize it thusly: "HD is so I can hear only a few stations".

Your debate is not with me. It's with those who'll quit listening en masse.

Analog radio is simple. It works. Programs are dull. As with food, eating is simple. Costly new baffling tableware will not attract diners. Dull or bad food causes people to eat elsewhere. Forget delivery systems. Fix the programs.

Or might we look forward to digital plates and spoons, with attendant licensing fees and periodic updates, not to mention crashes?

How utterly stupid. What a waste of time, resources, and spectrum. My opinion? Yes. Shared by many of your own profession who grew a set of cujones and stood up to a bunch of gouty old billionaire-dullards and their gaseous digital fantasies.

Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
20 March, 2007
 
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