The HD Digital Radio Alliance has struck a deal with Best Buy to offer HD Radios in all of their 832 stores nationwide. "The HD Digital Radio Alliance and iBiquity have created momentum with customers that now make HD Digital Radio one of the hottest electronics choices around," said Chris Homeister, Best Buy vice president of Merchandising. "Product is now available in all of our stores, so no matter where our customers live, they can discover HD Radio and experience the crystal clear sound and new programming choices."
Earlier this year, the HD Radio Alliance struck a major deal to offer HD Radios in Wal-Mart stores. Crutchfield now also sells the first ever HD Radio converter for your existing stereo. Now we can add Best Buy to the list.
"This is another major step forward for HD Radio technology," said Robert Struble, president and CEO of iBiquity Digital Corp., the developer of the HD Radio system. "Following rapid adoption by the broadcast community and an increasing range of products for the mass market, Best Buy's efforts will dramatically accelerate consumer adoption of this great new technology."
Now, I wonder if the HD Radio displays will be placed next to the Sirius and XM displays?
[Radio Ink]
Just another reason why I hate Best Buy
It will fail.
The public is stupid, but not quite dumb enough to fall for that shit.
It's just a matter of time.
Yep. But I guess these won't support the conditional access (ie, subscription) features of HD Radio that they announced at NAB last week. So don't buy HD Radio now, you'll just be missing out on programming later.
(When I saw the CA stuff about HD Radio last week in Vegas I laughed myself silly...)
Hopefully the public is not as stupid as this station in Philly saying the HD stands for High Definition. hahaha
BTW this page is not accessible by anyother way but from the orbitcast article written many many months ago. I only found it by doing a search the the orbitcast page came up in google.
http://www.wmmr.com/extra02.shtml