Why HD Digital Radio is a defective, misrepresented, HOAX!

[SuperSound]

HD Radio, IBOC, iBiquity, NRSC-5 or whatever else you want to call it is a DIGITAL DISASTER for broadcasting.
Here is my statement to a WHYY show (Radio Times www.whyy.org) about digital media, and links to my blogs with further information:

Dear Marty,
I am a regular listener to WHYY and enjoy your show.
I understand that in your first hour on Thursday 12/22 you will be discussing new digital media, including HD Radio-iBiquity-NRSC-5 now before the FCC and proposed as the standard for digital AM and FM broadcasting.
I am in favor of digital audio and digital media except for the proprietary HD Radio-NRSC-5-iBiquity system which is destructive, deceptive, and not in "the public interest, convenience, or necessity." It will do far more to destroy broadcasting, and the public's airwaves, then any possible benefit. As more digital stations sign on the air the digital hissing and jamming will spread across the dial jamming more and more licensed stations, and eventually making the broadcast bands a noisy wasteland. This system is severely flawed and has misrepresented itself to the public and the government. HD Radio should not be approved or allowed.
There are other, better, compatible systems to transmit digital audio that are not getting proper consideration because of political misrepresentations, maneuvers, lobbying, and money being spread around by the HD Radio Cartel/consortium.
Other systems are Kahn CamD for AM and fmXtra for FM. Neither jams other stations and both provide fully compatible digital broadcast service without destroying the current analog broadcasting system. Both are fully compatible with the current AM and FM broadcasting system and standards, while HD Radio is not.
Why block your neighbor's driveways with your digital garbage?
Won't they retaliate?
In Eastern Pennsylvania WRTI proposes to transmit digital HD Radio on their several stations and translators, forming a digital curtain of jamming noise extending from 89.7 to 92.1 on the FM band. This will surely jam signals from WHYY in some areas.
My websites further discuss this impending digital disaster, and are listed below.
Sincerely,
Richard Franklin
http://worldsupercaster.blogspot.com
http://commonsensesolutions.blogspot.com
My other websites:
www.supersoundstudios.com
www.wnar-am.com

 

[dbdigital]

> HD Radio, IBOC, iBiquity, NRSC-5 or whatever else you want
> to call it is a DIGITAL DISASTER for broadcasting.
> Here is my statement to a WHYY show (Radio Times
> www.whyy.org) about digital media, and links to my blogs
> with further information:
>
Here's what I don't get.

I don't get that while so many groups have been calling for stricter ownership caps, almost nothing is being said about how IBOC is allowing media conglomorates to weasel around the caps.

For example, in my area, Los Angeles County, Clear Channel owns 9 FM stations. Once they are converted to IBOC, Clear Channel will have the potential of broadcasting 18 audio streams. This is like giving Clear Channel 9 more stations. When FM goes totally digital, that number will triple.

I say that when the issue of ownership caps is raised, IBOC on FM must be factored in and that the caps must include the extra audio streams IBOC accommodates.

As for the technology of IBOC itself, sadly for FM, it's a done deal.

db

 

[Ai4i]

>
> For example, in my area, Los Angeles County, Clear Channel
> owns 9 FM stations. Once they are converted to IBOC, Clear
> Channel will have the potential of broadcasting 18 audio
> streams. This is like giving Clear Channel 9 more stations.
> When FM goes totally digital, that number will triple.
>

It is worse than that.
FM stations will have 96KBps to divy up as they please in the hybrid mode, and much more than that in the full digital mode. This means that each and every FM station becomes like a Eureka-147 bouquet. Those nine stations can run as many additional streams as they choose within bandwidth constraints.<P ID="signature">______________
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[mojavewolfpup]

> >
> > For example, in my area, Los Angeles County, Clear Channel
>
> > owns 9 FM stations. Once they are converted to IBOC, Clear
>
> > Channel will have the potential of broadcasting 18 audio
> > streams. This is like giving Clear Channel 9 more
> stations.
> > When FM goes totally digital, that number will triple.
> >
>
> It is worse than that.
> FM stations will have 96KBps to divy up as they please in
> the hybrid mode, and much more than that in the full digital
> mode. This means that each and every FM station becomes
> like a Eureka-147 bouquet. Those nine stations can run as
> many additional streams as they choose within bandwidth
> constraints.
>

My biggest problem with the switch to the digital television and radio formats is the big amount of waste destined for the land fills. seems to me like our radios will be turned to a silent piece of worthless trash when digital goes on air. same for the televisions. more and more people seem to be going to cable or just abandoning television over all.

Just wow. I can now watch 5,000 commericals that air on my local non cable fox affilate in hdtv! I don't think so, *click* Same goes for the radio, now I can hear clear channel forcing iraq war updates down my muzzle and commercials in pure digital! pfft, again... *click*

lets have a government irony. when we put our old televisions out on the curb and then rush to circuit city, walmart and best buy like good little consumer whores to replace them, I want to return to a bill attached on my door for hazardous waste pickup!

The government wants to force and mandate me to replace or upgrade all my equipment to get digital signals, and I think they should send us out money vouchers to replace the following:

my car/truck's stereo system

any televisions in my house

any radios in my house from my walkman to my home stereo system I recently just bought. don't forgot my clock radio!

do this for the rest of america. I am just fine having a television and radio that recieves analog signals. I don't need the 100% digital junk.

Why do I need to foot the bill for what amounts to a way for companies all around to get rich and even fatter in the pocketbook off new equipment? We haven't in factored the need to scrap 99%, if not 100% of the equipment based at thousands of radio stations and tv stations nationwide... can't sell them to hobbiest broadcasters since the analog radio bands are already earmarked to be sold off to corporations...

I get the impression that the upcoming digital shifts are to make people like me cry at the price of new equipment to start a radio station, even if I only want to serve people in a small town of say 500. It's the FCC's dream along with all it's big business buddies: making the Telecommunications act of 1996 that gave rise to so many companies gobbling up stations look like a small blip in the road!

way to go FCC,clear channel,cbs,abc,viacom, and any other big corporate broadcaster. you got your wish, when the last analog station shuts off it's broadcast amongest tears and rage and the last digital one turns on, the part of the airwaves being "for the people" is and will be officially in the past. No more worries about a thorn in your butt like me or anyone else just wanting to run a small radio station with some songs or have alternate view points on a small kilowatt station setup...... Happy now? no more worries of having to sue a small broadcaster off the air, use junk science to cry about LPFM being a threat to your station, or just run to your FCC master and get them sent out to shut down a vicious pirate radio operation that isn't charging for ads on the station and gets in the arbitron ratings! (true story, look it up)

the day the music died is drawing near folks.... better start digging the grave for radio as we knew it....<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by mojavewolfpup on 02/14/06 01:46 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[dbdigital]

> > >
>
> My biggest problem with the switch to the digital television
> and radio formats is the big amount of waste destined for
> the land fills. seems to me like our radios will be turned
> to a silent piece of worthless trash when digital goes on
> air. same for the televisions. more and more people seem to
> be going to cable or just abandoning television over all.
>
> Just wow. I can now watch 5,000 commericals that air on my
> local non cable fox affilate in hdtv! I don't think so,
> *click* Same goes for the radio, now I can hear clear
> channel forcing iraq war updates down my muzzle and
> commercials in pure digital! pfft, again... *click*
>
> lets have a government irony. when we put our old
> televisions out on the curb and then rush to circuit city,
> walmart and best buy like good little consumer whores to
> replace them, I want to return to a bill attached on my door
> for hazardous waste pickup!
>
> The government wants to force and mandate me to replace or
> upgrade all my equipment to get digital signals, and I think
> they should send us out money vouchers to replace the
> following:
>
> my car/truck's stereo system
>
> any televisions in my house
>
> any radios in my house from my walkman to my home stereo
> system I recently just bought. don't forgot my clock radio!
>
> do this for the rest of america. I am just fine having a
> television and radio that recieves analog signals. I don't
> need the 100% digital junk.
>
> Why do I need to foot the bill for what amounts to a way for
> companies all around to get rich and even fatter in the
> pocketbook off new equipment? We haven't in factored the
> need to scrap 99%, if not 100% of the equipment based at
> thousands of radio stations and tv stations nationwide...
> can't sell them to hobbiest broadcasters since the analog
> radio bands are already earmarked to be sold off to
> corporations...
>
> I get the impression that the upcoming digital shifts are to
> make people like me cry at the price of new equipment to
> start a radio station, even if I only want to serve people
> in a small town of say 500. It's the FCC's dream along with
> all it's big business buddies: making the Telecommunications
> act of 1996 that gave rise to so many companies gobbling up
> stations look like a small blip in the road!
>
> way to go FCC,clear channel,cbs,abc,viacom, and any other
> big corporate broadcaster. you got your wish, when the last
> analog station shuts off it's broadcast amongest tears and
> rage and the last digital one turns on, the part of the
> airwaves being "for the people" is and will be officially in
> the past. No more worries about a thorn in your butt like me
> or anyone else just wanting to run a small radio station
> with some songs or have alternate view points on a small
> kilowatt station setup...... Happy now? no more worries of
> having to sue a small broadcaster off the air, use junk
> science to cry about LPFM being a threat to your station, or
> just run to your FCC master and get them sent out to shut
> down a vicious pirate radio operation that isn't charging
> for ads on the station and gets in the arbitron ratings!
> (true story, look it up)
>
> the day the music died is drawing near folks.... better
> start digging the grave for radio as we knew it....
>

Nobody, and by that I mean consumers, ever asked for DTV or HD Radio. This is nothing more than the the electronics industry's response to flat sales. "Everyone's content with their TVs and radios and not buying new ones. Let's just make their equipment obsolete so that they HAVE to buy new." And these manufacturers can do it. They're the ones who have met together and set the standards (like MiniDV, HDV, Blue-Ray etc.) and they can change them to suit their bottom line. Media conglomorates, fretting over their vast radio holdings in the wake of iPods, satellite and internet radio, have been pushing IBOC.

Naturally, in facilitating all of this, the FCC has only been too happy to oblige to the public's detriment. The FCC Chairman and commissioners can talk all they want about the "public airwaves" but it is little more than lip service. They no more believe that principle than they do in Santa Claus.

I have a perfectly good Sony Wega flat screen analog TV. Since Congress is in a generous mood and earmarked millions for set top boxes, I'm going to take them up on their offer come 2009.

As for radio, well, there are some very interesting "convergence" devices coming up that will allow for WiFi and internet radio in addition to playing MP3s and MP4s. Yes, I will be by-passing HD Radio and will, at some point, be kissing off terrestrial radio altogether...especially if the FCC mandates an analog cut-off for radio.

db