HD Radio has a pretty significant presence here at CES 2008. At almost every booth that is displaying headunits, you see HD Radio alongside Sirius and XM (and iPod support, of course).
But the real news is that the HD Radio chipset is finally getting smaller, meaning it can be used in portable mode.
See more after the jump...
Sure, portable radio usage isn't very high, but this is a proof of concept. And the smaller the chip gets, the better the possibility for integration into other products. This is where HD Radio poses the most serious threat.
And we shouldn't think, for a second, that HD Radio isn't a threat to Satellite Radio.
That little f'er is ugly.
Ha! dualsub2006 beat me to it. If it only comes in orange, that is just terrible.
Ha! dualsub2006 beat me to it. If it only comes in orange, that is just terrible.
Creamsicle is the new black.
I got a used HD radio tabletop unit for free off of Craigslist. Didn't work at my house. My sister got a freebie through a hooked up friend that I am going to try. It is the little JVC that looks like a Starmate. I really only want to listen to WOXY.com on HD. At home I can listen on the Interntubes, but in my truck I can't.
Hello FCC guys?? Hello FCC Guys???
See the HD radio, XM/Sirius. IPOD, Slacker etc all next to each other--Does a light bulb go on finally? (its called competition)
not really.
Who buys a portable radio-only when you get it built into a cellphone or a MP3 player for free? And look at the guts. That is a lot of stuff for just a radio. I doubt the battery life is any good. My regular radios can go for days. Portable HD Radio is only commercially realistic when it is built into something, not as the standalone device. For home use, get a Wifi radio. For car, get satellite or use your iPod.
Slacker has just come out with a new portable - just like now, who's wants shitty HD Radio:
http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/ces-private-meeting-with-slacker-and-hands-on-with-the-new-portable.html
somebody used some inappropriate language
"HD Radio"
"Until now, portable HD Radio receivers have been unavailable because the chipsets needed by this technology required too much power to be practical for a battery-operated device. However, in January 2008 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas iBiquity unveiled a prototype of a new iPod-sized portable receiver. It is based on a new chipset developed by Samsung. Although portable, it is still a relatively power-hungry device (it will run on an average set of alkaline batteries in about two hours, according to an iBiquity engineer)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_Radio
"Sirius Satellite Radio"
"Sirius Stiletto 100 - the first portable Sirius radio that allows subscribers to listen to live Sirius programming... The unit's batteries give the user approximately 30 hours of life."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Satellite_Radio
The new HD Radio chipsets are still way too power-hungry for real-world applications.