hipporadio said:
I have a directory of chips used in popular consumer electronics over the years... It totals over TEN THOUSAND. Fact is – less-than 200 are actually employed in the mass today. Interestingly, the developers of these so-called “HD radio wonders” have very-little historical capital in RF and quality radio reception in general [especially AM]... WHERE will they be in a few years? This is classic “bluster”, or as they say in the ‘puter industry—vaporware.
Do you refer to Samsung? In case you are un aware. they are one of Asia's biggest electronics manufacturers. They have a larger worldwide reach than even France's Thompson (which owns the G.E. RCA and Proscan brands here).
I know, they are not MacIntosh -that's not their market.
Aside from some people here purposefully ignoring electronics manufacturing history, there some points I'll offer:
1) Forget Ipod like devices for iboc, radio isn't even present on most of the popular models. The typical consumer of these devices has already made their choice by going to the expense of buying and effort of loading their music into them.
That market is gone.
2)Concentrate on areas where radio still competes: Cars-home stereos-Home theater-boomboxes-clock radios.
Finally, on Memorial Day here in NY WABC (am) reverts to a music format and runs restored airchecks of it's "glory" days. I took the Acurian into the room where most of the computers are located here in my apt, I didn't bother to bring the FM dipole along, when I plugged=in and turned on the set WNYC-fm came in and decoded fully (hd1,2,3) along with most of the other presets that I and others here have set.
It did this w/out
any fm antenna. Few of the high quality sets I have do as well, if nothing else, iboc has forced a turnaround in receiver quality from the dismal spiral it has been in over the last twenty years.
Lino
... TRUE... And own three of their components that have not been out of their original box since 1997, but met their specs when I put them away!