Why Screw With IBiquity’s Flawed HD Design?

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Why Screw With IBiquity’s Flawed HD Design.

Say hello to the new mass market! Called radio pro…

It’s a new wifi player design costing less than $15.00 and amazingly uses low power consumption. The design makes a new category of portable battery-powered radios possible. It also changes the economics of building table-top products, or of adding internet radio capability onto any existing product categories such as MP3 players, satellite radios, hi-fi systems, cell phones and more.

You can even upload your mp3’s to www.mp3tunes.com and listen anyplace with your internet radio player with no commercials.

It’s pretty neat!

CSR predicts that by 2009:
40% of MP3 / PMP players will have Wi-Fi internet radio
50% of DAB and satellite radios will have Wi-Fi internet radio
30% of home hi-fi systems will have Wi-Fi internet radio

Why screw with iBiquity’s flawed design, when you can get a gadget that delivers unlimited music choices, cost’s almost nothing and fits in the palm of your hands?

Read more here: http://www.csr.com/radiopro/markets.htm

 

[LinoNYC]

Re: Why Screw With IBiquity’s Flawed HD Design?

Why Screw With IBiquity’s Flawed HD Design.

Say hello to the new mass market! Called radio pro…

It’s a new wifi player design costing less than $15.00 and amazingly uses low power consumption. The design makes a new category of portable battery-powered radios possible. It also changes the economics of building table-top products, or of adding internet radio capability onto any existing product categories such as MP3 players, satellite radios, hi-fi systems, cell phones and more.

You can even upload your mp3’s to www.mp3tunes.com and listen anyplace with your internet radio player with no commercials.

It’s pretty neat!

CSR predicts that by 2009:
40% of MP3 / PMP players will have Wi-Fi internet radio
50% of DAB and satellite radios will have Wi-Fi internet radio
30% of home hi-fi systems will have Wi-Fi internet radio

Why screw with iBiquity’s flawed design, when you can get a gadget that delivers unlimited music choices, cost’s almost nothing and fits in the palm of your hands?

Read more here: http://www.csr.com/radiopro/markets.htm

Just love these characters that come here, to a forum about iboc and discuss everything but...

Apparently the terms "rude" and "irrelevant" don't compute to these individuals. You can always go back to Jerry's blog.

Ok.

You can even upload your mp3’s to www.mp3tunes.com and listen anyplace with your internet radio player with no commercial

You often like to state that iboc is "ten years too late' etc, why then would people pay, then spend the time it takes to upload their music library then depand on getting an internet connect to hear it...when we now have MP3 players!

Asinine app...Chumby anyone?


...then...

CSR predicts that by 2009:
40% of MP3 / PMP players will have Wi-Fi internet radio
50% of DAB and satellite radios will have Wi-Fi internet radio
30% of home hi-fi systems will have Wi-Fi internet radio

That's great if you have a signal available (and bandwidth) to sustain it.

Free citywide WI-FI -not going to happen.

From you link: "The media audience researcher Bridge Ratings estimates that by the end of 2007, one in three of the USA's population will listen monthly to internet radio.

There are just over 730 hours in a month. How many of those will ever go to internet radio vs. conventional radio. People here talk about ibiquity setting up for a public offering, yet you link to a company spinning so fast you'll need Dramamine to get through the site.

It's truly idiotic to propose that the answer to those rejecting pre-programmed mass media is more of the same, delivered by other means.

Personal prediction: Satellite radio: gone within 6 years, internet "radio" carves a minor slice of the pie with local stations best positioned to capitalize and traditional OTA radio with upgraded transmission modes still free and most viable.

Lino

 

[Play Freebird]

Re: Why Screw With IBiquity’s Flawed HD Design?

I'll share my experience from the perspective of a freelance engineer who has installed five FM IBOC transmitters so far (I'm about to do two more) AND just spent the last couple of weeks building a new standalone Internet station.

The netcast station's owner is a 40 year veteran of terrestrial radio, who has owned several commercial AM and FM stations. Even he is surprised at the positive response. His station isn't even "on the air" yet, but orders are flooding in from advertisers who fully understand the concept and believe in the local content he intends to offer. And they will be able to listen to the programming immediately with nothing more than a PC.

As we've discussed before, startup costs for netcasters are a fraction of what it costs for an iBiquity license and IBOC exciter, not to mention the FCC-issued license. WiMax will be built out in this market within a year, completing the equation.

The big radio groups would be smart to make deals with locally-focused netcasters to extend distribution of this programming over their secondary HD channels on a revenue-sharing basis. However, the executives running these companies are too pompous to understand that listeners would prefer relevant local content over the low-budget jukebox garbage that's currently being offered.