New Insignia Portable HD Radio with Live Pause

[MoldaMania182]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/12/insignia-intros-second-portable-hd-radio-ns-hd02-with-live-pau/

If at first you don't succeed....

 

[radiogooroo]

Looks like a nice little radio. Hopefully it won't be too buggy out of the chute.

Since Insignia is the Best Buy house brand, I have to wonder why they continue to bother with HD Radio. I just don't see how there can be all that much profit in it for them.

 

[Savage]

Quotes without comment:

(Review, opening line) Believe it or not, HD Radio is still kickin'.

(Blog entries) And name it iLikeCheese. And: Looks like a nice holiday gift for elder (sic) people.

My contribution: 69 bucks...for a radio? No sale.

 

[travisl5678]

Does the live pause only work in HD mode?

 

[tomservo]

Looks like a nice little radio. Hopefully it won't be too buggy out of the chute.

Since Insignia is the Best Buy house brand, I have to wonder why they continue to bother with HD Radio. I just don't see how there can be all that much profit in it for them.

I get the impression that Insignia is made by the "b-team" of Chinese children at the factory, so maybe it's good practice to put them on the products nobody will be buying.

Edit to add: This kinda makes me mad since I just scrimped up for ANOTHER NDS-HD01 for the car.

 

[ddsparxx]

I see that whoever makes this thing made it look like an iPhone just to increase HD sales.

 

[radiogooroo]

Edit to add: This kinda makes me mad since I just scrimped up for ANOTHER NDS-HD01 for the car.

Eh... No biggie. I'm actually pretty impressed with mine. It works surprisingly well in the car.

 

[tomservo]

Edit to add: This kinda makes me mad since I just scrimped up for ANOTHER NDS-HD01 for the car.

Eh... No biggie. I'm actually pretty impressed with mine. It works surprisingly well in the car.

Yeah, it's not bad at all. My car has one of those stubby amplified antennas and the amp has quit working. The cost to replace it, parts-wise, was the same as one of these radios. But since I was not about to pay 3x that for someone to fix it for me, or try to do it myself and tear everything up, I just got the Insignia instead. Good FM and HD (where it works) is just a pleasant bonus.

Still though, I've spent $80 for two radios and one of them was defective. I held out on getting a new one thinking they might release a different model, then caved in when I got no word of anything new. So naturally I got another one and THEN they release a new model anyway. Just my luck. :

 

[Savage]

Don't fret, Zach. I'm sure they'll be steeply discounted in a few months. Certainly after Christmas and the first of the year.

Besides, given the history of this line, I would counsel anyone to avoid the first production run. Experience suggests the early units are likely to be buggy. 8)

 

[nd2023]

I just bought a new Insignia HD radio and the 14 day return policy just expired yesterday!

 

[tomservo]

I just bought a new Insignia HD radio and the 14 day return policy just expired yesterday!

Imagine how many returns they'd have if they had a standard 30 day policy. I would have certainly exchanged my first defective unit had I had more time. Instead I took it on the road immediately and ran out the 2 week grace period traveling.

 

[JohnnyElectron]

Unless there is an A-D converter, my guess is that you can only buffer the HD signal, so dropouts to analog would be dead, unless they take all analog and convert to digital, but I doubt BB would bother. SatRad has the buffer, and I love it - pause the radio in the drive-thru, replay a favorite, or when driving, being able to toggle back to get a song title as you couldn't watch the display while driving and wanted a song title.
Now if my local Cumulus stations with HD would bother to put some realtime data into the PAD or even RDS, otherwise, you won't be able to go forward and back in the unit without a 'tag' to mark the song beginnings, etc.

 

[nd2023]

But returns are counted favorably for iBiquity. The same person buying a radio, returning it, and buying another one counts as 2 HD radio sales.

 

[ajc_trw]

But returns are counted favorably for iBiquity. The same person buying a radio, returning it, and buying another one counts as 2 HD radio sales.

Just imagine the HD radio sycophants spending their days buying and returning HD radios.

 

[nd2023]

I'm sure there are some iBiquity shills doing just that.

 

[Tom Wells]

I'm sure there are some iBiquity shills doing just that.

Maybe that's what those "Mystery shopper" "employment opportunities" are.