Re: [IRCA] Requiring HD in Sat Receivers

["Saul Chernos" <sauldx@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Imagine the impact a really knowledgeable DXer could make as an expert 
witness should this ever go before a court...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Edmunds" <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Requiring HD in Sat Receivers


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> --- Tim Kridel <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: SkyREPORT [mailto:skyreport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 2:01 AM
>>
>> Subject: SkyREPORT 01/03/2008 - iBiquity Takes On Satellite Radio
>> Merger
>>
>>
>>
>> iBiquity Takes On Satellite Radio Merger
>>
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>
> This is sooo transparent !
>
> Satellite has niche content. Satellite has pre-empted many possible FM
> HD-2 format deployments. HD isn't penetrating the market.
>
> So now they want to mandate HD on satellite - the only levelling of the
> playing field here is in iBiquity's favor because they have seriously
> misjudged just about everything in this misadventure of theirs.
>
> It also shows they've learned nothing at all from their dubious
> experience about propagation. Satellite already has some challenges
> there, and overlaying HD would only make them worse.
>
> What's also laughable is that they've obviously also learned nothing
> about the market economics at play. We have to overlapping and
> underperforming satellite services trying to merge, so now we'll toss
> in some difficult and very expensive platform changes, and at the same
> time render all existing satellite receivers obsolete.
>
> It's about time for iBiquity to stand or fail on its own - if they hang
> by their own petard, then so be it.
>
> Russ Edmunds
> Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
> [15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
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> AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop
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