Is it over for HD Radio ?

[Tom Wells]

The cingular wireless card/lapto provided w/my job is currently delivering 1.8 Mbps in my basement.
But this is in Chicago,virtually in a university campus. Free wifis are available here at my house.
The cingular service did not work adequately in the dunes of lake Michigan at the little old hotel last summer.
It wouldn't really connect. However we drove from Chicago TO the dunes with the laptop patched into the 1972
Motorola-Dodge AM/FM volume control, st reaming Odeo garage punk podcasts of our choosing downloading perfectly as we drove the
hour and a half. Sure seemed pretty blankety-blanking high tech at the time.

This service does really well with 128kps streams.

Judging by the download speed of realaudio data at average res, it seems about 1/4 the speed of "good" wifi..

I have asked 3 more people randomly introduced into my life, all boomer age, about HD.
They have heard about it, and upgrading to HD seems to be the least of their concerns.
Next week I interview the pressman that bought the BMW ?-5 for $100,000, and we'll see why he opted for the sat rcvr!
It could pick up WGTO AM 910 in the parking lot in Niles IL better than my 1973 Motorola, ( which I've never checked the IFs on).
I am still checkin on the 103.1 FM problem.....Portables are having less trouble than my best tuner..

 

[PocketRadio]

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Gladly !

"Sprint First To Deliver Pandora for Personalized Streaming Radio on Mobile Phones"

"Sprint customers now have the power in their hands to exclusively discover new music and hear favorite songs through their own personalized "DJ" on their phone. Sprint continues to lead mobile music by delivering Pandora for the first time on mobile. The online music service phenomenon Pandora (www.Pandora.com), which has exploded in popularity to more than 6.5 million users almost entirely by word of mouth, is now available on select Sprint Power Vision phones."

http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=16780

And, iBiquity is having Samsung develop HD Radio chips for cell phones ! As Ramsey said, it's either "one size fits all", or "my size fits me" - which do you thinks folks ?

 

[PocketRadio]

"Audi, Mitsubishi making Sirius STANDARD on some models"

"Radio is on a roll. While BMW and Jaguar have allied themselves with HD Radio and Infiniti’s gotten in bed with XM Satellite Radio, Audi and and Mitsubishi have taken sides with SIRIUS Satellite Radio. Audi will offer SIRIUS as standard equipment on the S4, RS 4, A6, A8, R8, and specific Q7 variants. Mitsubishi will make SIRIUS standard on the new Eclipse Spyder, and make it part of the premium sound system on the 2008 Galant, Raider, Endeavor, Outlander, Lancer, Eclipse and Lancer Evolution. For some reason, the Montero appears to have been left out of the party."

http://victor.tihai.md/?p=3587

HD Radio is only a $500 OPTION on the BMWs and the stalled Jaguar and Hyundai LUXERY models - Sirius will be STANDARD !

 

[PocketRadio]

"Slacker Desktop Radio now available"

"Part two of Slacker's three prong attack on digital radio has just arrived: Slacker Desktop Radio."

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/slacker-desktop-radio-now-available.html

Now, with CBS buying Last.fm, Sprint putting Pandora on their cell phones, and with Slacker Destop Radio (with a portable radio to arrive soon), where does this leave HD Radio ?

 

[scanman1]

Quote: "Now, with CBS buying Last.fm, Sprint putting Pandora on their cell phones, and with Slacker Destop Radio (with a portable radio to arrive soon), where does this leave HD Radio ?"

As the excellent free alternative to subscription radio services which, in the case of a cell phone audio streaming service, drains your battery and renders your cell phone useless for making calls. 8)

 

[PocketRadio]

"Slacker Desktop Radio now available"

"Part two of Slacker's three prong attack on digital radio has just arrived: Slacker Desktop Radio."

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/slacker-desktop-radio-now-available.html

Now, with CBS buying Last.fm, Sprint putting Pandora on their cell phones, and with Slacker Destop Radio (with a portable radio to arrive soon), where does this leave HD Radio ?

"Revolution in radio: Exec leads Emmis' efforts to be a force in iPod era"

"Radio is still a great business, said Cummings, once a deejay for Emmis' first station, WENS-FM (97.1). But like all mass media, it's not as good a business as it was seven or eight years ago. In the late 1990s, revenue was growing at 8 percent. Today, it's closer to 1 percent or 2 percent. Emmis plans to boost investment in its interactive division, which handles everything from Web sites to Webcasts to podcasts to text-messaging contests. One of its biggest successes to date is the iTunes storefront. The overarching idea is to put radio back in the equation of how people find, listen to and buy music. Studies show millions of people still listen to the radio daily, but the time they spend with it is down significantly. The Web and other media divide their attention. Why spend all this money on interactive? Because that's where the market is going, Cummings said."

http://tinyurl.com/292fpd

As with CBS, Emmis realizes that the future is with interactive "my size fits me", not "one size fits all", as with HD Radio.

 

[TheRover]

Radio is here to stay.

It's sort of like when in 1978, after Disco, and when the Punk Movement was heralding the demise of "Dinosaur" Rock..... And then in 1979.... we have Led Zeppelin headline the Knebworth Festival -- twice-- ...

Oooops..... somebody got that death of Rock wrong....

You can't always believe the doomsayers, no can you !!

 

[PocketRadio]

Radio is here to stay.

It's sort of like when in 1978, after Disco, and when the Punk Movement was heralding the demise of "Dinosaur" Rock..... And then in 1979.... we have Led Zeppelin headline the Knebworth Festival -- twice-- ...

Oooops..... somebody got that death of Rock wrong....

You can't always believe the doomsayers, no can you !!

"Music enabled cellphone sales, and usage, on the rise"

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/the_competition/

This is a great site to keep track of HD Radio's competition - usage of music-enabled cell phones is up dramatically, while terrestrial radio's TSL is down significantly.

 

[R.F. Burns]

Radio is here to stay.

It's sort of like when in 1978, after Disco, and when the Punk Movement was heralding the demise of "Dinosaur" Rock..... And then in 1979.... we have Led Zeppelin headline the Knebworth Festival -- twice-- ...

Oooops..... somebody got that death of Rock wrong....

You can't always believe the doomsayers, no can you !!

"Music enabled cellphone sales, and usage, on the rise"

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/the_competition/

This is a great site to keep track of HD Radio's competition - usage of music-enabled cell phones is up dramatically, while terrestrial radio's TSL is down significantly.

Wake up, stop dreaming, it's time t go to work.

 

[PocketRadio]

Radio is here to stay.

It's sort of like when in 1978, after Disco, and when the Punk Movement was heralding the demise of "Dinosaur" Rock..... And then in 1979.... we have Led Zeppelin headline the Knebworth Festival -- twice-- ...

Oooops..... somebody got that death of Rock wrong....

You can't always believe the doomsayers, no can you !!

"Music enabled cellphone sales, and usage, on the rise"

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/the_competition/

This is a great site to keep track of HD Radio's competition - usage of music-enabled cell phones is up dramatically, while terrestrial radio's TSL is down significantly.

"Goodbye"

"Douglas Hanna, a former marketing executive, the author of more than 70 articles on HD radio, the Internet and family finances."

http://2barrels.com/2007/06/08/goodbye/

Well, there's proof that it is over for HD Radio ! One of HD Radio's biggest shills, that also ran hd-radio-home.com, is calling it quits ! He got so frustrated with my incessant posting of HD Radio links to his blogs, that he automated his blogs to repost every hour !