HD Radio : It Is Not A Question of "IF" - It Is A Question of "WHEN"

[~ RHF]

I B O C"Deed and Half-Crocked,

Just like XM & SIRIUS Satellite "DAB" Broadcasting where the
Canadian Radio Stations {Broacasters} and Canadian Government
found out that the Canadian People were in-fact Listening to these
two DAB Satellite Systems : The Canadian Business Interests
and the Canadian Government both wanted a piece of the
Profits to be made in Canada. Hence, XM & SIRIUS Satellite
"DAB" Broadcasting has been authorized for Canada with some
added Canadian Content.

Geographic Reality : About Three-Quarters (75%) of Canada's
Population lives within 150 kilometres (90 Miles) of the US Border.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada#Demographics
Which puts the majority of Canada's Population within the Service
Contours of many US Border AM & FM Radio Stations.
Over the next Decade {10 Years} more and more Canadians will
be exposed to AM & FM "HD" Radio using the IBOC Technology.
Over time many Canadians will buy a "HD" Radio to hear 'those'
American Radio Stations that they currently like to listen to.
At some point-in-time it will become in the Economic Interest
of both Canadian Broadcasting Businesses and the Canadian
Government to 'transition' to "HD" Radio using IBOC Technology.

HD Radio : It Is Not A Question of "IF" - It Is A Question of "WHEN"

Time and the Next Generation of AM & FM Radio Listeners is
on the side of "HD" Radio using IBOC Technology in the USA
and eventually in Canada. Can Europe Be Far Behind ?

it's a 'vision' thing - hy dee ray dee oh ~ RHF
Hello and Welcome to the "HD Radio" NewsGroup
HD RADIO => http://groups.google.com/group/hd-radio/
.

[~ RHF]

DPM,

Any "Conditional Access" AM & FM "HD" Radio Technology
that can be marketed to Consumers of Over-the-Air Radio
that sells to the Listener for 1/4 to a 1/3 of what XM and
SIRIUS Satellite DAB Radio currently sells for will be a
Success.

1 - XM and SIRIUS Satellite DAB Radio had no established
Listener Base and had to Build One from nothing.

On the Minus-Side - XM and SIRIUS Satellite DAB Radio
charge a Premium Price for their Product/Service.

2 - Currently "Free" Over-the-Air AM & FM Radio have an
Established Listener Base of 200 Million from which Build On.

On the Plus-Side - "Conditional Access" AM & FM "HD" Radio
because of the Size of it's potential Listenership can Be the
"Low Price" [Value] Deal for Buyers of Digital Radio Services.

it's a 'vision' ~ RHF
.

On Jan 29, 11:36 am, "~ RHF" <rhf-newsgro...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> I B O C"Deed and Half-Crocked,
>
> Just like XM & SIRIUS Satellite "DAB" Broadcasting where the
> Canadian Radio Stations {Broacasters} and Canadian Government
> found out that the Canadian People were in-fact Listening to these
> two DAB Satellite Systems : The Canadian Business Interests
> and the Canadian Government both wanted a piece of the
> Profits to be made in Canada.  Hence, XM & SIRIUS Satellite
> "DAB" Broadcasting has been authorized for Canada with some
> added Canadian Content.
>
> Geographic Reality : About Three-Quarters (75%) of Canada's

> Population lives within 150 kilometres (90 Miles) of the US Border.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada#Demographics

[IBOCcrock]

> > be exposed to AM & FM "HD" Radiousing the IBOC Technology.
> > Over time many Canadians will buy a "HD" Radioto hear 'those'

> > American Radio Stations that they currently like to listen to.
> > At some point-in-time it will become in the Economic Interest
> > of both Canadian Broadcasting Businesses and the Canadian

> > Government to 'transition' to "HD" Radiousing IBOC Technology.

>
> >HD Radio: It Is Not A Question of "IF" - It Is A Question of "WHEN"
>
> > Time and the Next Generation of AM & FM Radio Listeners is

> > on the side of "HD" Radiousing IBOC Technology in the USA

> > and eventually in Canada.  Can Europe Be Far Behind ?
>
> > it's a 'vision' thing - hy dee ray dee oh ~ RHF
> > Hello and Welcome to the "HD Radio" NewsGroup
> >HD RADIO=>http://groups.google.com/group/hd-radio/

> >  .- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Interest in HD Radio Remains Flat:

Google Trends search frequency analysis of "hd radio" versus competing
technologies:

http://tinyurl.com/2294aa

Compete website traffic analysis of "hdradio.com" versus competing
technologies:

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/hdradio.com+sirius.com+xmradio.com?metric=uv

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/hdradio.com+pandora.com+last.fm?metric=uv

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/hdradio.com+sprint.com+att.com?metric=uv

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/hdradio.com+apple.com+slacker.com?metric=uv

DRB Struggling to be Heard:

"Germany flicks off-switch on DAB"

"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/

"Digital Radio in Canada"

"The Commission is very concerned about the stalled DRB transition.
Roughly 15 of the 76 authorized stations (including the digital-only
operation in Toronto) are not on the air. Some stations that once
operated have since ceased operations. Few recievers have been sold,
and there is no interest in expanding DRB service beyond the six
cities where it exists."

http://americanbandscan.blogspot.com/2006/12/digital-radio-in-canada.html

"Straining to hear digital radio - Europe has a head start in
terrestrial digital radio, but is anybody listening?"

"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

"DAB+ receivers in the shops by Q3 this year"

"There seems to be some confusion over the cumulative DAB sales in the
UK so far, with Quentin Howard suggesting that there's been 4.5m
receivers sold in the UK but the BBC saying that 3.5m have been sold.
Splitting the difference and saying there's 4m DAB radios in the
market, when you consider that there are around 120m FM radio
receivers of one kind or another in the UK, then 4m only represents
3.3% of all the radio receivers in the market."

http://digitalradiotech.co.uk/articles/President-of-WorldDMB-was-dishonest-about-DAB+-on-BBC-TV.php

"Two digital radio stations to close"

"Digital radio will suffer a double blow this weekend with the closure
of two national digital stations, Oneword and Core. GCap Media's music
station Core is expected to close tomorrow, while UBC's spoken word
outfit Oneword, whose future has long been in doubt, will cease
broadcasting on Saturday. Both stations were broadcast via digital
audio broadcasting (DAB) on Digital One, the national digital radio
multiplex majority-owned by GCap. In a dramatic scaling back of GCap's
digital offerings, its digital music station Life is also set to close
while its chillout station, Chill, has been removed from the Sky
Digital platform."

http://tinyurl.com/2coldb

"DAB+ & DMB will themselves be made obsolete"

"Therefore, I would predict that DAB+ and DMB will themselves be made
obsolete by these 4G mobile systems unless they're upgraded, because
whichever 4G mobile phone systems is used it is bound to include a
broadcast mode, so DAB+ and DMB will have to compete against those
systems... Ultimately, though, the terrestrial digital broadcasting
systems are all doomed in the long-term, because there will be no
point in carrying on using them, but if OTA software upgrades aren't
supported on these systems very soon then it will simply bring forward
the date at which they'll become obsolete."

http://tinyurl.com/3355dm