Oh -
Couple of the 'problems' of IBOC according to Radio World apologists. Not to worry. They're working on 'solutions'.
There's a delay between analog and digital signals of several seconds. You won't take your radio to athletic events and expect play by play match the action. Like old movies they showed in school on 16mm projectors, actors' lips move, then you hear the words. Charming. Quaint. For $900? Do these geeks realize the nineties are over?
Not to worry, they're working on it. One fix: delay the analog. Smart! Too smart by half.
Another great feature, digital and analog signals combine to produce new and exciting variety of selective fading. No to worry, IBOC apparatchiks promise a 'blending' feature in new radios, which shifts back and forth between analog and digital signals. Oh, boy!!!
Most telling, in Radio World and other lickspittle articles declaiming the virtues of this CONtrivance, all who question IBOC are insulted but never taken to task on the facts. Why? Because the facts are against IBOC hustlers. Leonard Kahn needs no introduction. Mr. Kahn writes of the pitfalls of IBOC, and better ways to achieve more. Predictably by way of rebuttal he's called names by so-called engineers touting IBOC's wonders. Tedious. No facts? Hurl insults. Odd way to sell a product which should long ago have sold itself.
IBOC's carnival barkers claim it gives crystal clear audio - albeit with same dull programming - as well as oh so vital texting that we all crave in our innermost hearts. They'll claim it will cure syphillis and eliminate routine oil changes.
One thing these goat ropers never mention, ever, is that oh so delicate issue of interference. They know better.
FCC would lock us up and confiscate our equipment, rightly so, for creating interference. Why do they allow IBOC/qWeerChannel to get away with the same aberrant behavior?
FCC needs to get off the cross about Mr. Stern's discussions of poopoo and peepee and do what it does best, police the ether and prevent harmful interference.
The broadcast industry needs to listen to its listeners and provide varied programming to augment their stable of dim old hacks.
Why do I listen to Cuban MW most days when I don't speak Spanish? Simple. The music is elegant and varied. The playlist? Unlimited. Yeah, instead of commercials they blat propaganda, but audio quality is excellent and announcers actually sound like live human beings rather than canned drones or screaming former DJ's pretending to be commentators.
Sad commentary when coerced commies sound more alive and spontaneous than their stateside announcer counterparts.
Spontanously,
-Z.-
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasoviet Key, FL
"Your commie has no regard for human life."
- Gen. J.D. "Jack" Ripper, Base Commander,
Burpleson AFB, TX "Dr. Strangelove", c. 1963, Hawk Films, Ltd.
BT
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