State of HD Radio !?

[Wimmmex]

Yugos seemed like they were here to stay at one point too.

Find me someone who thought Yugo's were here to stay. ;-)

Ford Edsel
New coke
PC Junior
Apple Lisa
Cue Cat
Microsoft Bob
Quadraphonic sound
C-Quam
And - introducing - HD Radio to the list

Add Victrola, Wire recorders, Vinyl, Cassettes, 8-Tracks, phones with cords...

Platforms come....people use them....and then things move on. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Find me someone who thought Yugo's were here to stay. ;-)




Add Victrola, Wire recorders, Vinyl, Cassettes, 8-Tracks, phones with cords...

Platforms come....people use them....and then things move on. Nothing wrong with that.

Actually - some things come back. Quadraphonic adds center and subwoofer and resurrects as "surround sound". By the way, where is the promised 5.1 surround HD promised? Cue Cat - idea ahead of its time. QR codes are a mild success, because you don't need a separate scanner. Phone apps do the trick. New coke sneaked in high fructose corn syrup, which stayed. And still sucks compared to sugar. Microsoft Bob reminds me of Windows 8 metro. Which - brings me around to C-Quam. I still think it could be branded "HD-AM-2" and sold as something new. But nobody cares about improving radio, so the whole idea of HD was DOA from the start.

 

[TheBigA]

But nobody cares about improving radio, so the whole idea of HD was DOA from the start.

I'm not totally sure about that. I think nobody wants to pay royalties to iBiquity.

The problem, and Tom Taylor noted this in his newsletter today, is that the transistor radio is now a smart phone. I don't think anyone thought that 15 years ago.

 

[KB1OKL]

Find me someone who thought Yugo's were here to stay. ;-)

Zastava and Malcolm Bricklin, I was just reading about them and actually they were more successful than IBOC (ibiquity) and had less consumer complaints, haha! They were made until 2008 although none were imported here after 1992.

 

[Wimmmex]

But nobody cares about improving radio.

Speak for yourself! ;-)

so the whole idea of HD was DOA from the start.

It seems to be doing OK. And is now part of the major market FM landscape.

Zastava and Malcolm Bricklin, I was just reading about them and actually they were more successful than IBOC (ibiquity)

Yugo's lasted, what?....3 years in the USA? And everyone knew they were junk. After that, they were toast.

HD radio has been on the air now for....how long?

 

[semoochie]

I talked to someone from Yugoslavia who said that the Yugo was the right car for that country because of the way they drive. It just isn't right for here.

 

[landtuna]

I talked to someone from Yugoslavia who said that the Yugo was the right car for that country because of the way they drive. It just isn't right for here.

A number of European automakers found that hard lesson. Small cars with tiny engines are not made for the many millions of Americans who depend upon their cars to travel long distances at high speeds. The major problem with Yugo was their lack of reliability. In fact, the old joke went something like this:

Q: Do you know why Yugo's have heated back windows?
A: So that people pushing the cars won't freeze their hands.

 

[boombox4]

After Yugo's were out in the U.S. for a while I think the New York Times did an article on them. Very fascinating reading.

One guy had a new Yugo that literally was dropping parts of the drive train and transmission out on the highway behind him. Then, of course, it stopped working.

Something right out of a Warner Brothers' cartoon... But it actually happened.

 

[Ai4i]

Yu go (but the car stays).