[BC] From NAB Newsletter

[Jeff Allen]

I don't allow MP3s on the air sampled at less than 128K for commercials
only, music is uncompressed wav, no exceptions. But we are supposed to
swallow this 96K or less "HD" and pretend to like it, along with the bloated
license fee?    Biggest screw job I've ever seen.  ahhhh...feel beeter now.

J Allen



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> In a message dated 07/17/2006 2:05:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> SBailey at nespower.com writes:
>
> >    I think I'm may be holding my breath too long if I have to wait for
> >  the $99.00 HD Receiver at Best Buy.
>
> I still don't see it happening. When you can, quite literally, buy an
AM/FM
> radio (with "digital" tuning and memory presets) for about $9.95, why are
> people going to spend 10x that much for pretty much the very same thing?
It's gotta
> be looked at through the eyes of the consumers: "What's in it for me?"
>
> > There is only one station in the
> >  market that is HD, that I know of, WVNS-FM (Venus 102.5).
> >     I will pay the 99.00 for the HD receiver because I like the format
if
> >  WVNS, all 80's Top 40, the stuff I played on the radio when I was in
> >  college.
>
> The "IBUZ Revolution" (TM Rich W) isn't even going to be a blip on John &
> Jane Q. Public's radar until they can get radios in the sub $20 range that
will
> play for days on a pair of AA's, like they do now. How long will the
batteries
> last in that $99 special? What kind of batteries will it need? Laptop
style?
> How big will the whole thing be? What cost/benefit ratio are they going to
see?
> "Streaming" music quality of 64Kbps? (If the station alocates 32 for an
HD2
> channel.) Again, they ask, "What's in it for me?"
>
> Basically, the way this seems to be shaping up, the only somewhat viable
> purpose I see for FM IBUZ is as a pretty decent replacement for analog
SCAs. I
> still think the DRE system could do that a whole lot better, tho. (A
*whole lot*
> cheaper & easier, too!) People looking for special, dedicated formats
(Reading
> for the Blind, etc.) will either get Gov't subsidized receivers, or people
> will get the receiver when they "subscribe" to the specialty programming
by
> purchasing it from the station or network. I can't see 'em plunking down
$99 for
> just "another radio", tho. Again, they'll ask, "WHAT'S in it for me??"
>
> The AM system is already showing us how bad it can get, and it's not even
> running 24 hours, yet. To think... I was actually positive about this
technology
> a couple years ago... until I saw what this "emporer" was(n't) wearing.
<:P
>
> Willie...
>
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