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Should Ibquity set up Full Digital FM and AM stations.
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I have previously made this suggestion, but nobody appears to be interested. The Broadcast Maximization Committee put forward a very well thought out proposal to do this in a new all digital band, contiguous to the present FM band at 76-88 MHz. I think their proposal has merit, and could be patterned along the lines of the DTV transition whereby existing stations would continue to transmit analog in their present bands while receiving a new digital channel for use in the new digital band. After a prescribed period of time, the analog stations would shut down and either stay on their existing frequencies or move to the new band, using digital transmission only.
On the other hand, I am starting to wonder whether digital is the right way to go as far as reliability and robustness is concerned. Now that we're past the DTV transition, I find that I can't watch many of the channels I used to be able to receive, and those that I can receive do not come in reliably. This is with a very high end antenna and preamp system. TV is largely a stationary service, but radio includes a significant amount of mobile listening, which adds more complexity.
On the other hand, I am starting to wonder whether digital is the right way to go as far as reliability and robustness is concerned. Now that we're past the DTV transition, I find that I can't watch many of the channels I used to be able to receive, and those that I can receive do not come in reliably. This is with a very high end antenna and preamp system. TV is largely a stationary service, but radio includes a significant amount of mobile listening, which adds more complexity.
I would tend to agree with you, fab, but for a couple of factors: first of all, I see the current administration heading for trouble. Nationalized (by default) health care, cap-in-trade, and government takeover of banks and car companies. Sooner or later the public says: that's it. And a new political tide washes over DC and government is pulled back. There may be a new mandate handed to the FCC by players yet-to-be determined.
Second - there is a big ol' fly in the HD Radio soup and that's Internet Radio. The government can mandate HD all it wants but if nobody's listening, in the final analysis the industry won't go that way. The trendline is already overwhelmingly in favor of digital radio = WiMax/wi-fi radio.
Second - there is a big ol' fly in the HD Radio soup and that's Internet Radio. The government can mandate HD all it wants but if nobody's listening, in the final analysis the industry won't go that way. The trendline is already overwhelmingly in favor of digital radio = WiMax/wi-fi radio.
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The FCC has a new mandate. To promote localism, ownership diversity, rural broadband, and an open internet. They don't need a "new mandate" again.
And DAB has worked out fairly well for the UK. But then, it is a smaller country with less ground to cover than the far-flung territories including the rural US.
And DAB has worked out fairly well for the UK. But then, it is a smaller country with less ground to cover than the far-flung territories including the rural US.
Yeah, that's the thing, isn't it? For all the Commission's avowed "commitment" to HD Radio, it certainly hasn't shown any interest in mandating a hard switch deadline - or even inclusion in sat-rad. One can't help but wonder if the reason there isn't a lot of FCC momentum for all-digital is, there isn't nice spectrum which would be freed for auction sales a la broadcast TV. (The AM band in particular doesn't represent enough bandwidth to be worthwhile and those frequencies aren't very good for anything else anyway.)
Remember the FCC "adopted" C-QUAM too. And CBS' laughable noncompatible UHF-only electromechanical field-sequential color TV system. Just imagine all the product-liability lawsuits which could have ensued from a nation of high-speed spinning color wheels....enough to make the plaintiffs' bar drool all over their wing-tips.
Shop around and pick the poll you like (as usual.) I also saw a poll that says the public is terrified of the debt burden the Obama administration is racking up (bear in mind a whopping 6 PERCENT of the stimulus money has been spent to date.) And like 1993 all over again - they're really scared about national health care. American public opinion is notoriously unpredictable, and poll results are often steered by how the questions are posed.
Remember the FCC "adopted" C-QUAM too. And CBS' laughable noncompatible UHF-only electromechanical field-sequential color TV system. Just imagine all the product-liability lawsuits which could have ensued from a nation of high-speed spinning color wheels....enough to make the plaintiffs' bar drool all over their wing-tips.
Shop around and pick the poll you like (as usual.) I also saw a poll that says the public is terrified of the debt burden the Obama administration is racking up (bear in mind a whopping 6 PERCENT of the stimulus money has been spent to date.) And like 1993 all over again - they're really scared about national health care. American public opinion is notoriously unpredictable, and poll results are often steered by how the questions are posed.
Absolutely!
All broadcasters should be required to surrender their licenses to iBiquity immediately so they can start the conversion to all iBiquity HD Radio, all the time. :
Yes - the truth is, digital radio in Britain is in about the same place it is in the USA - which would be, "in trouble." Besides the FCC can't order all-digital. That would have to come from Congress.
Let's just take a little peek at DRM all-digital on AM (MW) in Britain, shall we?
Check video one, forwarded to me this morning by a friend. It's a hoot. The commentator is all cranked for all-digital radio....until HE ACTUALLY HEARS it (yeccch!!)
www.southhertsradio.com/video.html
Let's just take a little peek at DRM all-digital on AM (MW) in Britain, shall we?
Check video one, forwarded to me this morning by a friend. It's a hoot. The commentator is all cranked for all-digital radio....until HE ACTUALLY HEARS it (yeccch!!)
www.southhertsradio.com/video.html
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