“Your terms – http://www.hdradio.com – do not have enough search volume to show graphs.”

http://www.google.com/trends?q=www.hdradio.com&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

But if you try http://www.ipod.com, http://www.sirius.com or http://www.xmradio.com they all come back with results. More proof that people couldn’t care less about (H)ardly (D)ifferent radio no matter how free it is. HDR advocates would do well to remember that another word for free is worthless. On the other hand ipod and both pay services garner enough attention to generate data.

The only buzz HD creates is the interference with adjacent stations it can cause.

Yea…. like there is NO way for the digital technology to make any improvements along the way. No cutting edge technology ever makes improvements along the way. That’s why we should stick in yesteryear.

Unbelievable. You guys need to crawl under a rock and stay there.

“For a variety of reasons relating to the time requirements for digital signal processing, it takes 8-10 seconds for the digital audio signals to be heard when an HD Radio receiver is first tuned to a transmission. Likewise, it can take equally long to restore digital quality when the signal fails and then returns again. A secondary consequence of this processing delay is that programming fed to the analog FM transmitter must be delayed by 8-10 seconds whenever the blending feature is being utilized. This ensures that content is not lost when the receiver switches back to analog mode during a digital signal failure. Stations using this technology may need to implement certain internal operational changes to accommodate the fact that off-air listeners will experience delays of up to 10 seconds with both the analog and digital versions of their programming. Since no analog program version exists for ancillary HD2 or HD3 programming, listeners experiencing digital failures must simply tolerate audio outages until the signal restores itself.”

http://www.cab-acr.ca/english/radio/dab/DRCG_Report_final.pdf

DAB, IBOC, and all digital radio does not work as well as analog on the broadcast bands – digital radio suffers from dropouts, poor coverage, and interference.

Yes… let’s band together against progress! By the way… which one of you owns that tinyurl.com site? Or do you all own it?? Nice propaganda crap.

The day someone tells me that a one hundred year technology (i.e. analog)is the way of the future… is someone that needs his head examined.

“But today, digital radio is struggling to find its legs. While it’s still in the cradle in the United States, it has begun to crawl, a bit, in Europe and elsewhere… Europe has had a standard for digital radio for some time. The European Union adopted the standard, called Eureka 147, 10 years ago. But high prices and a lack of consumer interest have kept the market tiny.”

http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA266524&ref=nbra

“Annual DAB sales 50% below forecast”

“The following graphs are copied from the DRDB’s (Digital Radio Development Bureau — UK DAB’s marketing and PR arm) sales forecast documents from 2004 and 2007, and they show that the forecast sales for 2008 are a massive 50% below what the DRDB had previously forecast they would be for 2008, and the cumulative sales will be 18% below previously forecast by the end of this year and 30% below what they had previously forecast by the end of next year.”

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/articles/Annual-DAB-sales-50-below-forecast.php

“LONDON — January 30, 2008: A report from Enders Analysis found that digital audio broadcasting, or DAB, is in trouble due to the high cost of transmission and slow revenue growth, U.K. newspaper the Guardian reports.”

http://www.radioink.com/HeadlineEntry.asp?hid=140877&pt=todaysnews

“Macquarie Radio execs: delays have ‘killed’ the future of digital radio”

“Macquarie Radio Network says years of delays had ‘killed’ the future of digital radio, which was being overtaken by broadband services, third-generation mobiles and digital devices such as iPods, reports Australian IT.”

http://tinyurl.com/34p4lz

Proves my theory once again that there is a huge ulterior motive behind these HD Radio critics (like PocketRadio), stretching the “truth” and easily making their comments nothing but hot air.

http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2008/01/28/a-german-melodrama-part-ii/

DAB is doing fine in Europe. German’s planning ramping up of stations and coverage in 2008, French doing the same in 2009, and 27.3% of adults in the UK already own a digital radio. etc. Come over and have a look around, rather than relying on flaky reports websites with agendas to pursue.

I have yet to read anything positive from you about any subject you have presented on the internet.

You must know, that very telling thing about you discredits you completely. All subjective.

The educated consumer looks at all the content on the web, and weighs heavily on a balanced objective point of view from all sources. If he/she reads nothing but negative press from one particular source about something over & over… he dismisses that source – realizing that source has an ulterior motive.

It’s obvious you do. So what is it that you fear that HD Radio will do to you personally if it succeeds? :<)

Satellite and internet wi-fi radio provides HUNDREDS of radio stations for a consumer. And that’s a BAD thing???

Yes… I have heard all the debate about Content being more important than quantity. I agree 100%. And so what does that have to do with iBiquity’s mission to provide advanced technology for the future of terrestrial radio. It’s still in the hands of radio company broadcasters to provide the better content. Whether it comes as digitial or analog is immaterial. Such a weak argument to believe that iBiquity and IBOC is the cause of slowing down the consumer’s desire for better content. It has NOTHING to do with it.

So back to you. You have spent over two years with three thousand plus blog links throughout the Internet (and yes, I have seen your blogs all over the place)… in an attempt to save people from buying into advanced technology for terrestrial radio ????

Let me get this straight: Your sole purpose is to shoot down HD Radio technology???!!!

Wow! You must have a LOT of free time on your hands.

BTW… I will believe HD Radio is a farce, the day it dies.

Let’s see if it does.

Maybe I’ll be wrong. But I doubt it will bother me nearly as much as it will bother you… if you are the one that is wrong.

You’ll have nothing to do then!

MDF

“Part of the problem is that analogue FM never went away and most people didn’t seem to care for the clear digital-quality sound, and were left nonplussed by such benefits as easy tuning and message displays with song names and titles. DAB is struggling almost everywhere in Europe.”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/28/germany_switches_dab_off/

What IBOC-shills don’t understand, or admit to, is that consumers could care-less about the transmission systems, digital versus analog, but only care about content. Besides, digital radio is inferior to analog. There are already too many radio stations, so the HD channels are just over-kill. Digital radio is dead, or stalled, worldwide.

But:

“Are you waiting in line for your HD radio?”

“If you lower the price enough, folks will buy the radio. That’s the belief about HD radio that is being stoked in our industry. And, of course, it’s wrong.”

http://www.hear2.com/2006/11/are_you_waiting.html

“Consumers bought more than 300,000 HD radios in the U.S. last year, Struble says. That’s a drop in the bucket compared with total annual radio sales of 70 million.”

But:

“HD Radio spinners claim a breakthrough year: Pulling a fast one”

“According to a press release from the Alliance 330,000 HD receivers were sold last year. This is a 725 per cent increase from the 40,000 sets purchased a year earlier and therefore 2007 was a ‘breakthrough year’ for the technology. In 2008 they will sell a million of the things.”

http://tinyurl.com/4zgkaw

Do you have anymore articles?

http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&artnum=2&issue=20080604