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More bad news for HD

Mike Walker said:
Interesting how 700WLW's links to other people's works are supposed to be taken as gospel, but the personal experiences of others (there was a line to see the HD Radio display at Radio Shack in Charlotte!) are dismissed as a "cute story", after which we're told that "nobody is interested".

They didn't teach social skills at the NSA, did they 700? Is civility really so much to ask of you?
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The anecdotal experience at one store, when talking about a tech being rolled out at (so far) 1100+ stations across the country, doesn't mean squat. How long were the lines at EVERY Radio Shack store? How about at the big-box retailers...Sears...Best Buy...Circuit City...Wal-Mart? How many HD Radios are they selling? Come on, proponents. Let's stop comparing apples to oranges and give us some nationwide numbers (and I don't mean numbers from the HD Alliance, which has their own agenda to pursue). Otherwise, your dismissal of 700WLW's links is just as meaningless as his links are.
 
Considering that a whole broadcast industry depends on an Arbitron sampling of only a few thousand listeners in each market, Google searches are much more accurate, and less biased, because of the much larger sample size. If anything the criticisms of "garbage data" and "defective" sampling, apply much more to Arbitron then Google.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
http://weblogs.asp.net/nleghari/archive/2005/01/06/348024.aspx
Even MSN employees prefer Google:
http://weblogs.asp.net/nleghari/archive/2005/01/06/348024.aspx

All this, conclusively proves, once again, that HD radio supporters and the HD cartel will stop at nothing to promoted their faulty, destructive, HD radio system.
HD supporters have no shame, and will do, or say anything to scam and peddle the spread of their destructive technology.
 
BIGRIGGER said:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=HD+radio,satellite+radio,fm+radio,am+radio&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

huh....and the TOP trender is....

FM BABY! Duhhh
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Further proof of HD Radio unpopularity and lack of acceptance among radio listeners. Remember, most people are aware of HD radio, but only 8% have any interest, much less are ready to buy an HD radio. After over 3 years, and with a half Billion dollar ad campaign, there is little interest. HD Radio has got to be one of the biggest advertising/promotional flops of all time (relatively few radios sold) and does not say much for the effectiveness of radio advertising. The cartel should quit, while they still have any credibility left, and before anyone notices their failure.

Any time a city (or market) can double its number of
stations sort of overnight, the better for us all!
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Not new stations, just new automated digital streams of recordings, and recorded programs from the same old stations, and conglomerates. More HD supporter deception.
 
In case you're really interested 700, the line was four or five people (two couples...and a guy by himself) I think. I don't see well, so I'm guessing at the exact number of people (rp robs you of your peripheral vision. When someone is in front of me, I don't see "only their face", I see only a part of their face...so I have to scan back and forth with my eyes to take in a scene).

The HD display was the only one where people were waiting in line (other than the cash register). Business was relatively brisk, in the middle of the day on a Saturday at a brand new mall...Charlotte is a rather bustling city, in case you've never been.
 
Mike Walker said:
In case you're really interested 700, the line was four or five people (two couples...and a guy by himself) I think. I don't see well, so I'm guessing at the exact number of people (rp robs you of your peripheral vision. When someone is in front of me, I don't see "only their face", I see only a part of their face...so I have to scan back and forth with my eyes to take in a scene).

The HD display was the only one where people were waiting in line (other than the cash register). Business was relatively brisk, in the middle of the day on a Saturday at a brand new mall...Charlotte is a rather bustling city, in case you've never been.
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Sorry, to hear that, about your vision - that really sucks.
 
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