[BC] IBOC

[Mike Gideon]

>>>You can preach that audio quality just doesn't matter all you want. I can
> hear the significant
> improvements, and I can hear the positive comments from the field.
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> If audio quality mattered as much as you think it does, then AM would have
> died a quick death after the introduction of FM.

It did, for the most part. I only have 2 successful AM's playing music, one 
in a Top 50, and one in a Top 20

> Positive comments aside, unless there is a real reason for the
> average person to plunk down $300 of their hard earned money, they are not
> gonna go out and by and HD radio, "just because it sounds good".

We just ordered a bunch of radios for under $200. From $800 to $200 in just 
a few months. Where do you think it's gonna be in two years?
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> And I'm going to say again, one more time, I don't know.  However I can 
> tell
> from what I have seen so far, and 25 years experience under my belt, that
> the current system we have isn't the way to go.

25 years... a youngun' huh? :-)
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> I don't know why you have decided to carry the water for Ibiquity and the
> current IBOC standard we have now, but if you were a real engineer with
> enough real world experience

Geez, you ARE in the dark. You can say a lot of things about me, but saying 
I have a lack of real world experience just qualified this post and all your 
previous ones

Scott, I do have to apologize for getting cranky with you. You have the 
right to your opinion, even if you choose to ignore the relevant points that 
drive this industry. My guess is, end the end, it really won't impact that 
many listeners anyway.