Low Cost HD Radio Announced

[radiopilot]

radiopilot suggested:

The average Joe out there could care less about your demos... They'll go into Radio Shack, Circuit City, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc. and see and listen to the HD radio.... if they're not happy with what they hear, they won't buy... unless of course you're there with that handy demo to offer them to make up their mind!

I believe he may be working out a program distribution deal for that demo through his employer. If I heard that demo in a store, I would say that it was very nice and continue walking. As far as I'm concerned, AM IBOC is yet another (poor) engineering solution in search of a problem as a way to make lots of money for some speculative investors. I am not buying in. And neither is much of the great unwashed public.

jim8230 proclaimed:

.......Uh oh!.....its been quite some time now.....

where is he?.......over four posts and no nasty comments towards people that disagree with his take on HD....

Should be any second now.......Where is Burns?

No doubt he was very busy working at his job in the #1 broadcasting market. Some people DO work for a living you know! He has an important job and that takes precedence over posting here!

A fool who keeps posting URLs to meaningless links actually said something that wasn't foolish (so I am breaking my own rule):

If almost complete consumer apathy towards HD Radio doesn't change, HD/IBOC will eventually go away.

Well, we can keep hoping, right? I beseech you all to keep fighting the good fight against the disinformation campaign of the HD Cartel.

To which R.F. Burns replied:

I wish we could say the same for you!

Amen to that! But he will never go away unless people stop acknowledging his posts (like I just did above).

Yesterday as my wife and I stopped into Wal-Mart for some minor items, I took a side trip to the electronics section and there in all it's glory was a HUGE display for XM and Sirius complete with a display unit and speakers... Let me tell you this display would have caught your eyes and ears from across the store... I played with this unit across all it's channels and MY GOD this XM unit really sounded excellent... very nice considering there were no signs of HD radios anywhere in sight... even if Savannah is not transmitting in HD, there must be some other cities like Atlanta or Columbus, S.C. or Athens, GA playing HD...

Just some thoughts to ponder..

Radiopilot

 

[PocketRadio]

Just like all the other stores carrying HD radios, they just do it to get free advertising, then don't even bother to display the merchandise !

 

[dbdigital]

Walked into my local Radio Shack store yesterday to buy some electronic parts for a little project I'm working on. While there, I asked the salesman if the store had sold any HD Radios recently. He said they've sold two so far this year. There was no HD-Radio on display but the store hopes to have four in stock next month.

So is this a good or a bad barometer as the success of the HD-R rollout?

db

Where is the store located? Are there many HD stations broadcasting or on a few? The question is how many HD radios has Radio Shack sold not one store.

The store is located in Long Beach which is right next to Los Angeles (market #2) and, as such, we are awash in FM stations (and a few AM) broadcasting HD-R.

db

 

[js]

Head back to the automotive department at Walmart. The JVC HD radio is the first one in the display at our local Cincinnati store. It was also featured on half of the back page of our Best Buy ad. It's starting to get promoted.