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Should HD capability be required on all AM/FM receivers

secondchoice said:
The indash entertainment / navigation should "find" an FM radio station that "covers" the location with EAS*. If the receiver "hears" a warning (weather watches NOT included) it comes on and the message is played temporarily overriding what ever is playing. Remember there still is large parts of the country that don't have reliable cell service. This would be a backup to cell service in other places.

*I suggest using a zip code system for the "extra data" within the RDS using the vehicle's GPS. Likely is someone else has a better way to make sure the receiver "finds the correct" station to monitor.
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There was a system like this in Germany that would automatically switch on whichever station that was broadcasting traffic reports, if you set the "traffic report" switch on your radio to "on". It was made obsolete by RDS and now RDS2. This chart shows the different capabilities RDS and RDS 2 have.
 
radiofan2023 said:
There was a system like this in Germany that would automatically switch on whichever station that was broadcasting traffic reports, if you set the "traffic report" switch on your radio to "on". It was made obsolete by RDS and now RDS2.
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ARI was tested in the U.S. in the 1980s by several stations, including WHTZ ("Z-100") in NYC. I have a Blaupunkt radio which supports it (as well as C-Quam AM Stereo). But having it stop the tape and automatically switch to the radio when a traffic report comes on wasn't much of a benefit, when you could easily remember that your favorite news station has "Traffic on the 8's".
 
CTListener said:
I thought iBiquity had already been bought out by a company with no real interest in developing the technology, just raking in the licensing fees,
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Correct. The same company also gobbled up TiVo and put no further development into its DVRs, ultimately ending DVR sales just this month after five years of stagnation. Xperi instead used the Tivo brand for an Android streaming device it hoped could compete with Roku, Apple TV, etc., the Tivo Stream 4K, but it never gained much traction and has also been discontinued.

Xperi is now trying to cash in on Tivo's brand equity by slapping the name onto an operating system for smart TV's, Tivo OS. It's only found on a handful of TVs sold in Europe and one Sharp TV sold in the U.S.

So, if you're looking for a roadmap for the future of HD Radio under Xperi's ownership, there you go.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
Correct. The same company also gobbled up TiVo and put no further development into its DVRs, ultimately ending DVR sales just this month after five years of stagnation. Xperi instead used the Tivo brand for an Android streaming device it hoped could compete with Roku, Apple TV, etc., the Tivo Stream 4K, but it never gained much traction and has also been discontinued.

Xperi is now trying to cash in on Tivo's brand equity by slapping the name onto an operating system for smart TV's, Tivo OS. It's only found on a handful of TVs sold in Europe and one Sharp TV sold in the U.S.
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The only bright spot in all that is that Xperi still has to maintain the program guide for the smart TVs and therefore all of the existing TiVo DVRs (including mine, which is on lifetime subscription) still get overnight updates from the main server.

Were that not the case, this could have been ReplayTV all over again.
 


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