[BC] HD2 is here in Albuquerque

[Rich Wood]

------ At 12:21 AM 2/5/2006, Williams, Chris \(Albuquerque\) wrote: -------

>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...........

In my opinion, web streams are going to be the best way to sell 
receivers. IF they accurately represent what the listener will hear. 
I'll repeat my "don't demonstrate HDTV with Kinescope demos." The 
worst thing we can do is present a lousy sounding stream to a 
potential buyer. The downside of that for tabletops is "why should I 
buy a receiver when I can hear the voicetracked jukebox on my 
computer." I have an analog Boston Acoustics radio. The audio system 
on my computer is far higher quality. The subwoofer, alone, will 
homogenize you.

The Tweeter store here has a decent demo room. However, they have no 
plans to carry IBUZ products. The big box stores simply have a wall 
of speakers all running at the same time, it seems. No IBUZ there, 
either. Buying sound unheard via mail order doesn't work for me.

This is going to be a chicken and egg problem for a very long time. 
I'm of the "radio is showbiz" school. If all I'm going to get is a 
voicetracked jukebox I can use my MP3 player with my entire CD 
collection on it (30gb) or listen to around 200 commercial free 
voicetracked jukeboxes on SIRIUS and XM. I just checked my home XM 
receiver (connected to the computer) and it indicates there's a 
terrestrial signal. Very surprising, since this is a relatively small 
market. I'll have to bring the antenna inside and see what's up.

My suggestion would be not to put a stream up unless it's HD2 quality.

Rich



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