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RHOADS RIDES AGAIN! MIGHTY-RED PERPETRATOR CALLS FOR HD "RE-LAUNCH"

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Savage

Eric Rhoads, who graced us with direct sales of an Insignia portable knockoff sprayed red and dubbed "Mighty Red," wants everyone to line up for a repeat fleecing by HD Radio. In an e-mail blast titled "Let's Re-Launch HD Radio," Rhoads opines that all we have to do is call HD something else/different and append the superlative "NEW!!!" to it - then - just like THAT! Radio will presumably have a cool new success to crow about!

:eek: ABSOLUTELY!! GREAT freakin' idea, Eric!!!

We can cross-market HD in all kinds of categories!! Think of HD, factory-standard in your new Segway scooter - sold nationwide at every neighborhood Bricklin-Yugo dealership!! HD can be part of an interior-appointment package including little cupholder trays for Olestra potato chips and New Coke! HD branding can be applied to a whole new line of fanny-packs and cellphone holsters, etc. It'll be like the return of.....DISCO!!!

Ahem.... ::)

"With all due respect....." Meaning, not much - this is the kind of "thinking" that put the radio industry into a seven-year jackpot, doing such productive things as HD Radio and blowing millions on a paranoid lawsuit over satellite radio. "Re-launch HD Radio?" I see. Let's try once again to foist an unparalleled market failure on the public and try to sell the idea that THIS time, it's somehow different. "We just didn't discover the right lies last time...."
 
It might work if a name that actually applies to the product and doesn't try to ride someone else's coattails.

Honestly, why wasn't "Digital Radio" used the first time? Use of "HD" was a complete screwup.
 
I think the motivation was trying to "tailgate" the simultaneous adoption of HDTV, which represented a dramatic improvement in picture definition and overall quality.
 
How about if everybody turns in their Iniquity licenses and uses the money for better quality programming? We've got plenty of radio stations already. We don't really need more. The analog signal is better than any digital signal. Even AM stereo in the old C-QUAM format was better than The Buzz.

Content is the real issue, not technology. Radio technology has gone backwards in the last decade. Settle on technology supported by the BILLIONS of existing receivers, add modern processing, and spend the money on content. See, isn't that simple?
 
Savage said:
I think the motivation was trying to "tailgate" the simultaneous adoption of HDTV, which represented a dramatic improvement in picture definition and overall quality.
Click to expand...

When it works...... :mad:
 
Call it the "New 'Radio Plus' ".

As it recognizes an "HD-x", a "+" lights and if it fails, again, it can turn into a "cross" that signifies the tombstone of a flawed system.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
(imitating joe six-pack) Digital radio? I gotz me one of those, it shows a number on the display when I tune around the radio. ???

That was why they don't call it digital radio as it would confuse some people with digital readout displays.

Personally I have several radios with digital displays that are not capable of getting digital transmissions.
 
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