The only thing you can do is laugh...

[dumber than a box of hair]

...at the ever strained attempts to defend the indefensible:

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=166411.0

What started off as a discussion of which Boston-area FM stations will raise their HD power morphed into HD's usual defenders (all one of them, in this case) repeating the same tripe over and over again.

 

[Savage]

(Sigh) Yep, righto, Hair....

The usual MO for IBOC types. As soon as the WLYN manager questions the validity of the HD concept - suggests that the system generates unacceptable levels of interference - or advances other reasoned and reasonable arguments against IBOC....

....his station gets attacked. (Can you say: "Guy Wire??") :

Whether you're talking about national political issues like bailouts, immigration, health care - or HD Radio - you always see the same dogmatic tactics . When tough and valid (or unanswerable) questions get asked, the "usual suspects" will:

1. Change the subject
2. Try to derail or end the discussion by provoking unnecessary conflict
3. Attempt to discredit the critic personally

Sic transit HD. Its slow death continues - albeit at higher digital power (in a handful of cases.)