[BC] IBOC Query

[Robert Meuser]

Digital is not sexy enough yet. For those who go to the Phil ALexander school 
of defeatist engineering where 'it is here, I'll roll over and take whatever 
they throw at me is good enough', it never will be.

It will be because there are those who do not accept the status quo and are 
doing something about it.

R

Phil Alexander wrote:
> On 2 Feb 2006 at 18:11, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
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>>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.
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> You are ignoring the relentless advance of technology when the true mass
> production threshold is crossed.
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> Look at what has happened with cell phones and portable computers.
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> Moto bag phones to the new Sliver. Osborne's to PDA's. Tech marches on.
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> At a mass volume, manufacturing cost equates to materials and weight.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 
> 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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