Re: [IRCA] IBOC, one thing I fear...

[mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Martin)]

Lee,

That is still not going to get the millions to go by an IBOC radio.
People have more choices today. We have internet radio, XM, Sirius, etc.
You cannot force the people to buy the IBOC radios. Just look at HDTV.
They expected many more people to buy that. But so far they haven't.
Digital TV may be mandated by 2009, unless they move the date again, but
I think the people not on cable will probably just by the top set boxes.
The orginial plan I heard was to go totally digital (IBOC) on AM & FM
and having no more analog. But again it is still up to the people.

Patrick

Patrick Martin

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• Subject: [IRCA] IBOC, one thing I fear...
• From: Lee Reynolds <kd1sq@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:58:19 -0400

Patrick wrote:
'As a writer for RW for a while and attending several NAB conventions, my
feeling is that the NAB calls the shots and the if the NAB tells the FCC
to jump, they do.  There are millions and millions resting on IBOC, be
it AM or FM. They are going to try and shove it down our throats any way
they can. But again, people have to buy the radios, let alone the
zillions of lawsuits. I sure hope there are plenty of them too.'

Patrick,

There's one very obvious way that those who have an interest in IBOC succeeding
could force us to participate - by having our fine, fine government mandate the
shutdown of analog transmission modes on AM and FM (a la DTV) by a certain date.

If it was merely the NAB that stood to profit from this I wouldn't worry too
much about such a thing happening. However, when I think about who else stands
to profit from digital audio streams (and the controls that can thereby be put
on them) I come up with a very nasty four letter word/acronym - the RIAA.

I'm worried that the next muffled thump I hear may be that other shoe
dropping...

                  Lee
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