[BC] Top Ten reasons why IBOC won't make much difference...

[DANA PUOPOLO]

My arguement is completely valid, Ron. YOU were the one who compared huge,
crappy sounding, unreliable 8 tracks (that could only store about 10 songs) to
ipods, which are less than half the size of an 8 track cartridge (let alone
the player needed to play them in) and can hold thousands of songs with good
quality. The comparison to IMTS telephones vs cellular is just as valid.

-D 

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Received: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:49:10 AM PDT
From: "Ron Castro" <ronc at sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: [BC] Top Ten reasons why IBOC won't make much difference...

I don't recall any IMTS mobile phones that fit in my pocket, Dana.  Also, 
they had only 32 channels for an entire city, you had to call an operator, 
put a big box in the back of your car and a 150 MHz vertical on it too.  The 
cost was horrific and there were huge areas with no coverage.  That was 
*not* a valid analogy.

Ron Castro
Chief Technical Officer
Results Radio, LLC


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> Following your arguement Ron, cell phones should have been a dismal 
> failure.
> After all, we had IMTS mobile telephones back in the 1960's.
> Also, let's not forget that there was a pay phone on every corner.
>
> Clearly, they were not.
>
> -D
>
>
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>
> And how many 8-track cartridges did a person have to haul around to equal
> the capacity of an iPod?
>
> The "do it yourself" option may not have been the easiest thing 40 years
> ago, but it's here now.  Portable CD players, mp3 players, satellite
> boom-boxes--all very real.
>
> The 8-track may not have been the hottest thing around, but pre-recorded
> cassettes did find something of a niche market...
>
> ak
>
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Ron Castro wrote:
>
>> That "no commercial, choose your own music" option has been around since
> the
>> dawn of the 8-track, and we all know what a resounding success that was.
>
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