[BC] IBOC Query

[Phil Alexander]

On 2 Feb 2006 at 18:11, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:

> It's not going to be 
> easy to get everyone to toss them all, to plunk-down hundreds for something 
> that will, for all intents and purposes, be the same thing they just got rid 
> of... except that they can't carry it around.

You are ignoring the relentless advance of technology when the true mass
production threshold is crossed.

Look at what has happened with cell phones and portable computers.

Moto bag phones to the new Sliver. Osborne's to PDA's. Tech marches on.

At a mass volume, manufacturing cost equates to materials and weight.

Look at the tech in a throw-away cell phone and tell me pocket digital
radios are not possible at $24.95 on sale at Wal-Mart.

As for tossing analog sets, consider video games and computers as the
models for the present generation. We live in a fast food world, a
consumer society. How many radio/TV repair shops are left? It is
cheaper and less trouble to buy new and trash the old. The younger
a person is, the more easily they will simply buy a "modern" radio
IMHO - unless we wait so long all they need to do is tune in a stream
on their ear mounted comuniputer device.


Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology 
(a Div. of Advanced Parts Corporation) 
Ph. (317) 335-2065   FAX (317) 335-9037





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