[BC] IBOC Query

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In a message dated 02/01/2006 5:58:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
richwood at pobox.com writes:

> Let's be really, really conservative and assume everyone 
>  won't replace the multiple analog receivers they currently use. With 
>  a population of nearly 298 million people, that leaves 297 million to 
>  go just to have access to the entire population, as we do now. That's 
>  close to when analog can go away.
>  
>  Rather than negativism I prefer to think of this as realism. I think 
>  there's a real difference from what regularly appears in puffy press 
> releases.

Rich, I agree with you completely. I just cannot imagine everyone going out 
and dumping working radios. The recent price drop of the BA unit 
notwithstanding... $300 is still a *lot* to pay for a table radio with minimal benefit to 
the average listener.

The way it seems to me, is that HD2 is just a high-fidelity SCA service. It 
may have some value in that respect- leasing-out the HD2 "SCA" to another 
program provider, perhaps ethnic programming/music or whatever. You still have to 
consider the cost of the receivers, tho... and the fee$ to IBORG.

Willie...