[BC] HD2 is here in Albuquerque

[Williams, Chris Albuquerque]

Well I know in our building the limiting factor is a single T1. Not to mention we will be launching several more streams soon. On the corporate level I am not sure who decides what we use. And as Bob has pointed out we are not using AAC which would improve audio @ 32K.  So at least from my position 128 is impossible. But heres a bigger question, could Ibiquity apply their codec to web audio so you could hear the quality and format over the internet? I think that would be a great maketing position...........
 
Chris

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Sorry about the last post -- somehow I clicked "send" while I was still
editing.

I've listened to a few of these streams and can't help but wonder why they
aren't available in a better sounding format than 32K Windows Media.

Many of the competing "Internet broadcasters" offer wide bandwidth streams
which are much more pleasant to listen to.  For instance,
www.radioio.comprovides several 128K MP3 streams that sound pretty
close to FM.  Go to the
SHOUTcast webpage (www.shoutcast.com) and search on "radioio" and you'll see
their streams ranked by number of listeners presently online.  There is
definitely consumer preference for the wider bandwidth streams.

If Clear Channel's intent is to build a significant audience for this new
content, I would expect they would want to use they best available
technology, but at this point it doesn't appear that's being done.

Mark

On 2/4/06, Williams, Chris (Albuquerque) <chrisw at clearchannel.com> wrote:
>
> Well after an exhaustive push to launch 5 HD2 broadcasts and webstreams I
> would like to invite everyone to check out the hard work.
> www.clearchannelmusic.com/hdradio has all our HD2 streams that we are
> broadcasting. Let me know what you think. (Technically of course since
> engineers don't program LOL.....right Rich)
>
> Now to catch up on the Honey Do's!
> Chris Williams
>
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