Stations in AM IBOC

[Element9]

For these reasons I predict that HD will ultimately fail. It will hang around like a bad respiratory infection, spewing its signature noise and generating yawns from the public for several years. But it's destined for the trash heap of failed engineering curiosities. And that's precisely where this junk-engineering belongs.

Barrister brings the heat and clarity.

 

[Savage]

What I'd prefer to bring would be just a modest little cruise missile to a certain address in Hull, MA. Now THAT'S clarity.

It's okay, moderator....I'm just kidding......

 

[Mark Giardina]

What I'd prefer to bring would be just a modest little cruise missile to a certain address in Hull, MA. Now THAT'S clarity.

It's okay, moderator....I'm just kidding......

No he's not! I've seen the cruise missile, along with the alien autopsies that are performed on creatures from other planets.

Every body thinks WYSL is a radio station; it's not. It's really Western New York's Project 51.

Where's Molder and Scuzzy when you need them? The truth is out there!!!!

Darn it's so hard to type with this straight jacket on. Where's the nurse with my meds?

Isn't Matlock supposed to be on TV now?

 

[aaronread]

All the earlier technologies were made widely available without egregious licensing requirements. They were made available with equanimity in a manner that didn't create an elite class of first-adopters. They weren't harmful to the status quo or impose economic hardship on non-elites. They offered tangible benefits instantly appreciated by even less-discerning consumers in the general marketplace. And finally: they WORKED WELL and reliably. HD fails to attain any of these benchmarks.

ROTFLOL!! Okay, look, I don't try to be mean, but this is so ignorant of history it's just laughable. At least HD Radio didn't drive it's inventor to commit suicide because the established player wanted so badly to guard his slice of the pie. VCR's? Have we forgotten the Beta vs. VHS wars so quickly?!? (and that Beta was a superior product) Not to mention the furious lawsuits from movie theaters and Hollywood about how VCR's were going to cause rampant piracy. For that matter, the NAB said the same thing about tape decks and radio stations. CD players often sounded like crap until 8x oversampling.

And, oh yes, most of those things you describe? There's plenty of terrible licensing fees associated with them, too...they're called patents.

Yes, HD Radio has a lot of problems. And yes, iBiquity has acted just like a "greedy corporation" throughout the process. But it's really not much different than countless other times a new technology has been introduced to the marketplace. I'm not an HD apologist, as I've said and as I've demonstrated, but I'm not going to stand by and let someone play fast and loose with history just because it's the only way they can make their argument.

 

[Savage]

C'mon, aaron, back down the rhetoric. You can engage in debate without getting nasty.

I assume you refer to Armstrong's suicide. If you read any objective biography of Armstrong you know he was not a textbook example of emotional balance or stability. It's hard to say for sure precisely why he jumped out of a window, let alone blame it on his fight with RCA over FM. People who knew him thought, with his reckless bosun's-chair antics on the Alpine tower, he had a death wish. Co-workers had been predicting and anticipating his death for decades.

Patent royalties are one thing. Licensing to the end user is a whole different league. Give me the callsign of one station who paid direct royalties to somebody for broadcasting in FM. Or FM stereo. Or NTSC color TV.

You made my point for me when you cited the VHS vs. Betamax war. The superior Beta system failed (at least in the consumer marketplace) because Sony wanted excessive licensing fees to manufacture using the system. VHS's developers were more reasonable to deal with. The Sony Betamax is a marketing lesson obviously lost on iBiquity.

As for your statements about - I assume you refer to Disney vs. Sony in the VCR litigation in the 9th Circuit of the 1970s - I miss your point in your comparison with HD Radio. (Is that an ironic note from history or what? Imagine Disney, of all companies, trying to kill home video.) And I don't know what you're talking about with recording music off the radio. Why would the NAB care whether people recorded music off-air? Or did you mean the RIAA?

Yes, I know nobody associated with the development of HD has commited suicide. But there's HOPE! (Lighten up, just kidding!)

 

[The Voice of Reason]

I'm not as technically inclined as Mr. Savage or others, but all I know is that at night, when I'm driving back home from work, I have to slip in a CD because because some AM stations sound like a beehive with all of the buzzing noise in the background. First I thought it was my car radio malfunctioning, so I took it into the dealer to have someone look at it. Nothing wrong with the radio. So let me chime in and say that if IBOC is the future, it's time to get pass out the mass cards for AM radio.

 

[Radknowski]

So let me chime in and say that if IBOC is the future, it's time to get pass out the mass cards for AM radio.

Ohhhh-boy, we're getting precariously close to sacrilege here... just lemme get outa the room before the lightning strikes.

Aunt Sophie has been lighting candles for AM ever since I was shown the door at that AM station in Harrisburg years ago. I could be wrong but my former employer may have answered her prayers.

 

[Mike Sheridan]

I assume you refer to Armstrong's suicide. If you read any objective biography of Armstrong you know he was not a textbook example of emotional balance or stability. It's hard to say for sure precisely why he jumped out of a window, let alone blame it on his fight with RCA over FM. People who knew him thought, with his reckless bosun's-chair antics on the Alpine tower, he had a death wish. Co-workers had been predicting and anticipating his death for decades.

In the book about Armstrong "Man of High Fidelity" his suicide note points to his regrets on how he treated his wife. This was possibly due to the pressures of his long legal fight with RCA. I have seen what long legal battles can do to people. After reading the book I wasn't sorry there's no longer an RCA Corp.

 

[aaronread]

Yes, I know nobody associated with the development of HD has commited suicide. But there's HOPE! (Lighten up, just kidding!)

Well, in all fairness, I've wanted to kill some people whilst dealing with WEOS's Harris Z8HDC transmitter (which is, of course, an HD xmitter). I suppose I'd probably make it look like a suicide.

 

[Savage]

Closed-circuit to Ontario District Attorney Tantillo: pay no attention to the foregoing post in the event there is any transmitter-related unexplained death in Geneva. My friend aaron is just being droll. No, really!!!

"HD Radio: Just Whistling Past The Graveyard!"

(Or should that be HISSING past the graveyard??"