Yamaha RX-V4600 HD Radio also features HDMI switching!

[1q2w3e]

A fair review of the Yamaha RX-V4600 which features an internal HD Receiver. http://msn-cnet.com.com/Yamaha_RX_V4600/4505-6466_7-31548723.html?tag=lst

What I like about it, is that it features HDMI video switching for your HDTV monitor.

Though a tad pricing, it would be worth it to have the HDMI switching and to have HD Radio heaped on as an extra bonus.

 

[hipporadio]

[from the c-net review]

“On the other hand, HD Radio couldn't be easier to set up and use. There's no separate HD antenna to install [???] Just tune to any AM and FM station broadcasting in HD, and you get HD Radio. [SOMETIMES] HD Radio is just like standard radio, except that stations broadcast digital as opposed to their usual AM and FM analog signals, which improves audio quality and reduces bandwidth.”[]

What in the name of Comet Cleanser are these computer geeks smoking? With all due respect to c-net, possibly they should leave matters regarding “home audio” to the appropriate review publications, and stick to CPU motherboards and Dell laptops!

“The V4600 can display the song title, the artist's name, the album title, and the music genre--if the station supports that feature. That didn't seem to be the case for any of our 10 New York/metro area stations, most of which are FM outlets.”

Interesting... Radio’s top-ranked market—and no station bothered to bridge the title/artist info from the station program PC to the IBOC ‘puter :

 

[700WLW]

Hippo, help ! Someone here has OCD and we're being taken over !

 

[Mike Walker]

Imagine...a forum on HD Radio being "taken over" by fans of HD Radio. The horror! But wait...if nobody cares about HD Radio, it's kind of a contradiction that there are more posts by more people, don't ya' think?

 

[700WLW]

Imagine...a forum on HD Radio being "taken over" by fans of HD Radio. The horror! But wait...if nobody cares about HD Radio, it's kind of a contradiction that there are more posts by more people, don't ya' think?

It is obvious, that only radio-geeks care about HD Radio - with all the complicated setups, for loop and externally mounted dipole antennas:

http://www.google.com/trends?q="hd+...,+xm,+sirius,+podcast&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

On the "other" IBOC shill site, someone has been fighting with the moderators, because he is being forced off !

 

[calstymes]

Mike Walker queried:

But wait...if nobody cares about HD Radio, it's kind of a contradiction that there are more posts by more people, don't ya' think?

Oh, LOTS of people on this message board care about HD radio. I care very much about HD radio. I am extremely concerned that AM HD radio might get approved for full-time operation and become a "standard" and I've got to do everything I can to make sure that never happens.

Otherwise, I won't be able to sleep at night.

 

[700WLW]

Mike Walker queried:

But wait...if nobody cares about HD Radio, it's kind of a contradiction that there are more posts by more people, don't ya' think?

Oh, LOTS of people on this message board care about HD radio. I care very much about HD radio. I am extremely concerned that AM HD radio might get approved for full-time operation and become a "standard" and I've got to do everything I can to make sure that never happens.

Otherwise, I won't be able to sleep at night.

IBOC is not going to happen, on AM, anyway:

"RW Opinion: Rethinking AM’s future"

'Only 175 or so AM stations have even licensed AM-HD. For a number of reasons, quite a few have tried it and taken it off the air, or so the anecdotal evidence suggests. (Ibiquity no longer reports in its public summaries whether a station is on the air.) Making AM-HD work well as a long-term investment is seen as an expensive and risky challenge for most stations and their owners. With the bulk of successful AMs airing news, talk and sports, the improved fidelity advantage of HD and stereo seem only marginally attractive. There is the significant downside of potential new interference to some of their own AM analog listeners as well as listeners of adjacent-channel stations. And of course we still have no nighttime authority for AM-HD."

http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.557.html