Re: [IRCA] SE FL IBOC Status

["Kevin R. in Gilbert, AZ" <amfmdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: [IRCA] SE FL IBOC Status

> How did we survive without HD? 
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> I don’t know if HD is good or not. There are no radios that are being sold other than a few terribly overpriced car units. 
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> That said, questions like this one, are just downright silly. 
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> We just find them better than what came before. HD offers very improved audio on AM, and better audio as well as a second channel of additional programming on FM, opening the free radio programming choices by double! 
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> I have never heard HD. I know you are an corporate person who toes the line as a VP of a radio conglomerate.  I have to take your comments with a grain of salt, nonetheless, I do believe that IBOC has the potential to be better for a local listener than analog. The problem that I see is that in the beginning, David is that you said that the difference would be improved by the additional bandwidth used for the signal. 
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> Now you have changed your tune to say that the difference is that there can be more signals per channel. This is a question out of ignorance but a little knowledge. If you split the bandwidth, won’t that take the audio quality to FM quality, negating any perceived improvement in sound?
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> What will this do about the programming?
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> HD simply sounds a lot better, and is competitive with other digital audio distribution systems. 
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> If there are any radios sold within my lifetime, and I am 50 and I might have 30 years to go, my life could actually end before any radios, other than the incredibly expensive ones used for cars might ever be released, I plan to buy one to find out if they ever decide to sell them. 
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> However, while waiting for a decade of being told that IBOC radios were coming out, I bought an XM receiver that I am intensely pleased with. I am making the assumption that I am not the only one who has done this. It leads me to believe that IBOC / HD has missed the train leaving the station. All of this should have been done a long time ago and on a different band. 
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> Whether HD / IBOC is great or not, HD appears to be a day late and a dollar short. 
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> Kevin




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