"Trying to Figure Out HD Radio" MSNBC

[radiopilot]

Quote: "For you it doesn't matter the cost as long as you have one regardless of your income, but you have to admit that if you're on this board it qualifies you as a radio geek... "

Yes, I admit it. While everyone else is toting MP3 players around, I'm toting radios.

Quote: "for every 1 radio geek here there are 50,000 non-radio geeks out there that could care less that broadcasters are touting HD."

And that kinda sucks. But whatcha gonna do? I Just hope that changes, because if it doesn't, it's back to analog for me after HD is gone. 8)

I would have bought an HD radio if it was based on pure digital on some other band and not interlaced on existing analog signals and I bet AM on digital with 25hz-20khz would have sounded like killer... but it sounds like crap now, second on FM they should have given all new frequencies for this band broadcasting pure digital only, what was the FCC thinking?

Radiopilot

 

[PocketRadio]

Quote: "For you it doesn't matter the cost as long as you have one regardless of your income, but you have to admit that if you're on this board it qualifies you as a radio geek... "

Yes, I admit it. While everyone else is toting MP3 players around, I'm toting radios.

Quote: "for every 1 radio geek here there are 50,000 non-radio geeks out there that could care less that broadcasters are touting HD."

And that kinda sucks. But whatcha gonna do? I Just hope that changes, because if it doesn't, it's back to analog for me after HD is gone. 8)

I would have bought an HD radio if it was based on pure digital on some other band and not interlaced on existing analog signals and I bet AM on digital with 25hz-20khz would have sounded like killer... but it sounds like crap now, second on FM they should have given all new frequencies for this band broadcasting pure digital only, what was the FCC thinking?

Radiopilot

That would have been a better alternative, an all-digital band, but it was tried in Canada and stalled, and it is being tried in the UK, but sales of DAB radios have slowed (plus, DAB is a mess, and they are thinking of implementing DAB+, instead). I guess, if there was more consumer interest in terrestrial radio, all of this may have worked, but too many have moved on.

 

[radiopilot]

Quote: "For you it doesn't matter the cost as long as you have one regardless of your income, but you have to admit that if you're on this board it qualifies you as a radio geek... "

Yes, I admit it. While everyone else is toting MP3 players around, I'm toting radios.

Quote: "for every 1 radio geek here there are 50,000 non-radio geeks out there that could care less that broadcasters are touting HD."

And that kinda sucks. But whatcha gonna do? I Just hope that changes, because if it doesn't, it's back to analog for me after HD is gone. 8)

I would have bought an HD radio if it was based on pure digital on some other band and not interlaced on existing analog signals and I bet AM on digital with 25hz-20khz would have sounded like killer... but it sounds like crap now, second on FM they should have given all new frequencies for this band broadcasting pure digital only, what was the FCC thinking?

Radiopilot

That would have been a better alternative, an all-digital band, but it was tried in Canada and stalled, and it is being tried in the UK, but sales of DAB radios have slowed (plus, DAB is a mess, and they are thinking of implementing DAB+, instead). I guess, if there was more consumer interest in terrestrial radio, all of this may have worked, but too many have moved on.

I'll continue to say HD radio is 15 years too late.... The tech toys of today just will not allow HD to flourish as the pro-HD types would have you believe.

The reality that HD is going nowhere is very hard to digest for the pro-HD types and it's this attitude that will be their downfall.

Radiopilot