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Why does iBiquity have the corner on the Digital market?

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I'm investigating the costs of converting one of my FM stations to digital, and this question arose.

I know of two digital encoding standards for FM - iBiquity HD and FMeXtra.

To implement IBiquity, you have to buy a new transmitter, re-work your antenna feed system, and pay a hefty license fee to use the technology.

To implement FMeXtra, you buy a box that plugs into the SCA port of your current exciter. That's it. And no license fee.

So why has the radio industry embraced iBiquity when it's much more difficult and expensive to install? Is it simply that IBiquity beat FMeXtra to the punch and gained acceptance first? Or is iBiquity far superior in some way? FMeXtra will ever gain more ground?

Thanks.
 
Your question is a business decision, not a technical one. Ask your management. Both systems appear to work, I'm told.

Your're welcome :):)
 
The same people that gave us Sirius and XM invested heavily in Ibiquity.

They are owners of the large radio chains or at very least heavily supported by same.

Change the Rules Sarnoff and watch Armstrong squirm. He might even jump out a window.

No less stupidity than changing Armstrong's band in 1945 thanks to RCA CASH. Made all the transmitters and receivers obsolete. Then RCA stopped making payments on patents.

If you aren't in the large group pushing IBOC you better watch out and hope it dies a horrible death.


This is also why the License fees are smaller for those who joined day one and are now over $25,000 per station.
 
ChiefEngineer said:
If you aren't in the large group pushing IBOC you better watch out and hope it dies a horrible death.
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It may not be dying, but it ain't feeling so good right now.
 
The only ones getting fat on this deal is iBiquity.

It sort of makes you wonder what would have happened if, for instance, Apple developed the broadcast codec and associated hardware for HD radio instead? Perhaps it would have been an offshoot of their Quicktime technology and who knows - perhaps it would have allowed most any computer to decode these stations with a hardware tuner card installed in most garden variety computers that had Quicktime loaded. It could have possibly because a new online streaming standard as well. If that were the case I bet the royalties paid by users of the codec would have been much less expensive than what iBiquity is raping terrestrial broadcasters.

I know a boat load of terrestrial station who flat out refuse to shell out one dime to iBiquity for what they considered flawed technology. In my opinion it has no place on the AM band and as for FM, if stations want to pay them I guess that's their own business.
 
It may not be dying, but it ain't feeling so good right now.
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What was it that Churchill said? "This may not be the end, but it's the end of the beginning"
 
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