Original Insignia HD Portable Design Changed!

[JohnnyElectron]

RadioDoogie: in your opinion, is this REV a better radio for decoding HD or RDS, or is it the same quality, or lack there-of?

 

[RadioDoogie]

Better on both RDS analog and HD. It seems to read the data a bit faster than the previous model. The screen is much clearer on this model. There are no more annoying blue tones in the background. It is solid black so that the screen images are more vibrant. I had it in the car in suburban Atlanta today and I was about 30 miles outside of town in the car and it stayed locked into the in-town HD stations flawlessly while driving. The sensitivity seems better on this model also.

 

[Darth_vader]

"The screen is much clearer on this model. There are no more annoying blue tones in the background. It is solid black so that the screen images are more vibrant."

Must be a TFT screen, instead of the traditional colour LCD.

 

[RadioDoogie]

I forgot to mention that the brightness control was eliminated from the new menu. It only lets you set the LCD off time.

 

[satech]

I'm in New Jersey where the dial is crowded with stations, and some places have a pirate station on every open frequency, even the first adjacents. The Insignia HD radio gets solid HD reception for only 15 miles, increasing dropouts out to 30 miles, and no HD past 30 miles. The analog's good to 60 miles. In Minnesota, I got solid HD reception up to 40 miles away from a 100kw class C.

Here's a good map of the overlap between NYC and Philly FM signals. If you are in any of the colored regions, you're probably not going to get reliable -- if any -- "HD" reception:

http://i50.tinypic.com/23kr7r8.gif

 

[nd2023]

I'm in the overlap region and I get both NYC and Philly in HD reliably, except I have a big outdoor antenna and the Sony XDRF1HD. On the Insignia portable, neither are reliable.

 

[raccoonradio]

Just bought the new version, now charging..have the orig. too. $50 at Best Buy--which also has introduced a "tabletop model" which includes a "piggyback antenna" to help recep. Same price as the new portable. We'll see how this does. I didn't opt for the new tabletop model, trying portable again to see if this is just as good if not better. How the graphics look, etc. and maybe there should be some good "extra stations". The first one did do very well in FM recep at least, and also the "extra stations" but...
...it depends on where you live/are.

 

[JohnnyElectron]

Is the tabletop the new $100 AM/FM or is an FM only also for $50?

 

[raccoonradio]

this one--fm and hd tabletop. $45 on sale normally 50
\
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Insigni...477073&skuId=4635744&st=insignia hd&cp=1&lp=1