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Who said they would NEVER put FM in an Ipod???

If that Insignia radio doesn't receive HD subchannels then I woudn't buy it. Kind of remind of me of the earliest HD car radios that I didn't think received subchannels and were greatly overpriced.
 
The current cute little Insignia portable does receive 2's and 3's. The earlier referenced Insignia may be one put out before HD 2's and 3's existed.
 
Chuck said:
Really??? I thought the secondary channels were the big reason to buy a new HD radio. I've toyed with the idea of getting one, just to see how it works. Thanks for saving me some money.
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I'm not sure about the other Insignia models with the HD decoder built in, but I stupidly discovered my car radio wouldn't after I already installed the damn thing. I read the operating manual cover-to-cover trying to find how one selects or have it scan the alternate channels. I couldn't find anything in the manual that talked about alternate channels. So I E-mailed Insignia support with the question and received back a reply that my model does not support anything other than the HD-1 streams. Rather pi$$ed me off to be sure, but I can say without hesitation that the HD-1 channels do work quite well.
 
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I see the potential here for HD to "make (alienate) new consumers" if the Alliance/Ibiquity permits the continued marketing of HD radio models which can't detect HD-2 and HD-3. After all that's the thrust of most of the promotion - the "increased choice" from "new stations you can only get with HD Radio."

At best people will react with relatively benign annoyance as Howard has done, but others could see - unless each receiver's packaging bears prominent 'NOT HD-2 OR HD-3 CAPABLE' stickerage - potential false advertising claims in this case. From the average consumer's point of view, the additional alternative formats are the main HD raison d'etre.
 
Question for those of you with an Insignia HD portable: Can it be switched manually into analog mode?

The reason I ask: When HD stations go to "ballgame mode", delay on the analog side is bypassed (to allow the stadium audience to hear the game in real time on analog portables ) but HD receivers are forced into "digital hold" which prevents the receiver from blending back to analog. I was trying to listen to Sunday's Eagles game on my HD car receiver but it kept muting, so I had to manually switch it to analog - a real PITA. At least I haven't forgotten the correct button sequence to do this.

OF course, iBiquity should have designed the system to force receivers to "analog hold" but this would have made too much sense. So if someone brings an Insignia HD portable to the game, will it also stay locked in digital, thus defeating the whole purpose of "ballgame mode"? Nothing would surprise me at this point.
 
There's no manual override for analog. I'd like to hack it and add the feature.

Also my radio receives HD 2 & 3, someone posted a comment saying their model only receives HD 1
 
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