[BC] The mysterious iBiquity license fee revealed?

[Dana Puopolo]

I gotta tell you, I listened to XM last night after a couple of years and they
sound TERRIBLE!
No High end, TONS of artifacts, some songs sounded like mono with the essence
of stereo added.
Their sound is sub par to analog FM!

What are they using for bandwidth? 5kb?

It's truly AWFUL!

-D


------ Original Message ------
Received: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:02:22 PM EST
From: " Milton Holladay" <miltron at mindspring.com>

A couple of thoughts come to mind:
If radios that work for XM and Sirius also have to recieve  IBOC, IBOC might
acquire a few listeners when XM/Sirius subscribers cheap out and stop paying
for service and listen to IBOC by default..
On the other hand, perhaps IBOC should change to being a subscriber service
to gain listeners, because, since it is now free (other than the cost of the
reciever) it is percieved as worthless.......<gr>