http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.1 2012-02-11T21:50:04-06:00 http://www.rbr.com/radio/engineering/tech-topics/15662.html 2009-07-08T14:41:00-05:00 2009-07-08T14:41:00-05:00 Carl Marcucci In response to iBiquity Digital’s comments filed yesterday, with the FCC in response to its Public Notice soliciting a second http://www.rbr.com/radio/engineering/tech-topics/15662.html 2009-07-09T11:27:27-05:00 2009-07-09T11:27:27-05:00 Pocket Radio "FCC to Consider Raising FM-HD Power Levels""Why would radio stations take the risk of degrading the quality of their existing analog service in order to pimp a flawed technology which nobody's listening to? It's almost as if the strategy of the HD Radio Alliance is to degrade analog radio service in order to force digital adoption - kind of a variant on the 'we had to destroy the village to save it' rationale."http://tinyurl.com/67bgv7 http://www.rbr.com/radio/engineering/tech-topics/15662.html 2009-07-09T15:12:07-05:00 2009-07-09T15:12:07-05:00 Dennis Jackson Can we please stop aiding and abetting the dishonest propaganda coming out of iBiquity and its radio conglomerate owners who refer to the IBOC scheme as "HD"?HD is term appropriated from television that describes a spectacular, must have improvement in picture quality.But "HD radio" is hardly "the Uncola."To apply the term "high def" to the lean bitstreams jammed into the spectrum by iBiquity is dishonest and disingenuous. The main channel sounds no better than analog, and the secondary and tertiary streams sound as bad as you'd expect from a stingy bitrate. But they do jam adjacent stations in areas where they used to have listeners. A good example is the way WNYC-FM's unique high quality programming on 93.9 is now torn up here in nearby Connecticut by the IBOC hash from the CBS hip hop station on 93.7 in Hartford."HD" is a lie that the public sees through. It has rendered IBOC superfluous in the marketplace and caused radio as a medium to lose credibility.