Hear 2.0 makes a great point in a recent post. Mark Ramsey takes a look at Engadget's reaction to the new Cambridge Soundworks Tabletop HD Radio, and (gasp) they could give a hoot about it. Here's the snippet from Engadget:HD Radio, the new digital radio format, for those of you keeping score at home, is now available from about 1,000 stations who are simulcasting in HD and in traditional formats -- which is still less than 10 percent of all American radio. Furthermore, the price of a new HD radio still remains significantly higher than a pocket or tabletop analog radio. How much higher? Well, this newest offering will set you back $300 when it becomes available in November -- and that little $20 "transistor" radio your Mom gave you in 1987 still works great, doesn't it? So yes, we're still listening to National Public Radio and baseball games in analog, thank you very much.Isn't HD Radio supposed to be this incredible new technology that's supposed to get early adopters frothing at the mouth with excitement? Mark is correct, this is not an issue of price - the iPod is mighty expensive, and early adopters are willing to pay for the latest gadgets. But if HD Radio isn't able to capture the hearts and souls of those who are inheritely enthusiastic about technology - Engadget being just one of them - then how will they capture the rest of America?
Oh right... it's going to take 10 years.
Here's a question. Since Orbitcast is only slightly bias (*cough* HD Radio sucks *cough*)... has anyone even seen a blog, any blog, that actually likes HD Radio?
[Hear 2.0]
It's hard to sell HD when it doesn't stand for High Def
All HD Radio has to do is hire the King of All Media and Mel.
Nobody gives a shit about HD radio. 20 minutes of commercials in digital sound is still 20 minutes of commercials.
and shitty range too.
True I forgot about that
Well, I found a HD Radio blog... they have to like it.
http://digital-am-fm.com/
i think we ALL agree on this one
@DodgerBlues
Of coarse you all agree. This is after all an anti-terrestrial (or testicle if you are a Stern fan) pro-satellite website. But just because all of one small homogenous group believes somethings doesn't make it true. Also keep in mind that satellite has quite a head start in the market compared to HD. Grandmother weren't talking about XM or Sirius a month into the promotion blitz either. These things take time.
@ Stan
Where do they play 20 minutes of straight commercials? I don't know of any except for Stern's old show on K-ROCK. You are being ridiculous.
For the record, I have XM and Sirius and love both services a lot.
Ryan
I can't remember the name of the interviewer but I believe she was interviewing fonda. she made a comment about why we call it terrestrial radio and how it seems wrong to her.
brent from bubbas show spewed off the definition of why we call it what we call it.
basically she is an idiot.
Fact is...
This is still-born technology that the public has no interest in. Sure, this board will openly mock it, but the endless news stories reporting about how no one seems to be adopting it and, even worse, no one cares sure says alot more.
HD Radio really doesn't offer people anything they want.
Ryan W. - Highly rated shows have somewhere from 16-24 minutes of commercials an hour. I guess if you want to count bad shows that no one listens to then I guess you can take a bit off the number - but not much.
Making free radio more expensive isn't going to help bad programming. The reason everyone doesn't own SatRadio already is the fees involved. No one wants HD radio because like Orbit Ryan says, you can listen to censored(both music and talk), commercial laden content for much cheaper than what HDradio is ever going to provide.
Now, you may talk condesendingly about the people on this site but the true is, NO ONE is talking about how great HDradio is going to be. In fact, other than small homogenous group like this, no one is talking about HDradio, period....except for shills.
He never said 20 minutes of "straight" commercials. Most morning do have A LOT of commercials and 20 minutes within a 1 hr period does sound plausable. The average American commute is around 25 minutes so figuring a round trip and one other short trip each day, then 20 minutes each day does not sound out of hand at all (assuming you only listen in your car).
Very telling... I checked out the http://digital-am-fm.com/ link, and while there were quite a few posts, the were NO COMMENTS! A lack of comments reflects a lack of interest as far as I'm concerned.
ITS CALLED A IPOD FUCK PAYING FOR XM SHIT IPOD!
HD Radio is a fraud and a farse - HD Radio/IBOC causes adjacent-channel interference and has only 60% the coverage of analog. Having to mount external dipole antennas, just to get the HD side-channels of the same old terrestrial radio junk is a joke !
are you supposed to be 700WLW? if you are, GO REDS!!