Do you think that this might actually show an interest with HD Radio by proxy, it's not easy to return the factory radio
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More and More New Cars now with HD Radios
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I don't know about that, but I'll tell you this: "more and more cars" with HD installed at the factory, despite the giddy glad tidings of the six HD fans who post here, is NOT a good thing. Let me explain why.
We all know that - while there are anecdotal reports of HD working "JUST FINE!!" in certain markets with optimal terrain, few adjacents and high power - the best that can be said of HD Radio performance is "unpredictable and often unsatisfactory." Consider the typical consumer. While, as informed professionals, we might expend the energy to troubleshoot the inevitable reception problems, muting and mode-hopping, for each one of of us ten civilians out there will simply assume "radio reception sucks" and turn to mp3s and satellite.
The foregoing, of course, applies only to FM HD. The AM is useless.
It's another instance of "be very careful what you wish for." We can only hope that the industry will have some success in instructing listeners how to defeat the digital when it causes erratic performance.
We all know that - while there are anecdotal reports of HD working "JUST FINE!!" in certain markets with optimal terrain, few adjacents and high power - the best that can be said of HD Radio performance is "unpredictable and often unsatisfactory." Consider the typical consumer. While, as informed professionals, we might expend the energy to troubleshoot the inevitable reception problems, muting and mode-hopping, for each one of of us ten civilians out there will simply assume "radio reception sucks" and turn to mp3s and satellite.
The foregoing, of course, applies only to FM HD. The AM is useless.
It's another instance of "be very careful what you wish for." We can only hope that the industry will have some success in instructing listeners how to defeat the digital when it causes erratic performance.
I'm wondering whether the new car purchase lists HD radio as an option at extra cost or whether it is bundled into the base price? I can foresee a ton of unhappy buyers if they paid extra for a technology with so many unresolved inherent problems.
OTOH, HD radio could be like my XM/Sirius feature of my new car radio - unused. It was included "at no cost" (OK.....insignificant cost) in the base price of the car but I don't use it so it doesn't bother me.
It would be interesting to know how many service calls are directly related to underperforming or unperforming HD radios and whether the bean counters took this cost into account when approving the design.
It still seems to me that trying to sell "an improved audio signal" to a generation of people raised on compressed audio is an exercise in futility.
OTOH, HD radio could be like my XM/Sirius feature of my new car radio - unused. It was included "at no cost" (OK.....insignificant cost) in the base price of the car but I don't use it so it doesn't bother me.
It would be interesting to know how many service calls are directly related to underperforming or unperforming HD radios and whether the bean counters took this cost into account when approving the design.
It still seems to me that trying to sell "an improved audio signal" to a generation of people raised on compressed audio is an exercise in futility.
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