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Sunday, May 28, 2006

 

"RADIO'S LATEST EFFORT TO BAMBOOZLE WALL STREET"

The industry's latest futile folly is High Definition Radio.
HD-2 signals have an average 20-mile radius from a station's transmitter.
Even when you're locked onto a full-strength HD-2 signal, it may fade out. An external FM antenna and a coaxial converter to the HD radio may help.
HERE IS THE LINK TO THE REST OF THE STORY:
http://www.freetimes.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3247&POSTNUKESID=fcd7cafad554d9ce283dc8072af4f014

 

"RADIO'S LATEST EFFORT TO BAMBOOZLE WALL STREET"

The industry's latest futile folly is High Definition Radio.
HD-2 signals have an average 20-mile radius from a station's transmitter.
Even when you're locked onto a full-strength HD-2 signal, it may fade out. An external FM antenna and a coaxial converter to the HD radio may help.
HERE IS THE LINK TO THE REST OF THE STORY:
http://www.freetimes.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3247&POSTNUKESID=fcd7cafad554d9ce283dc8072af4f014

Thursday, May 18, 2006

 

HD Radio-RIAA Lawsuits coming?

LOS ANGELES, May 16 (Reuters) - The recording industry on Tuesday sued XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. , alleging its Inno device that can store music infringes on copyrights and transforms a passive radio experience into the equivalent of a digital download service like iTunes.
A spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America, comprising major labels such as Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group , Warner Music Group Corp. , EMI Group Plc and Sony BMG, said the suit was filed on Tuesday in New York federal court.
The suit accuses XM Satellite of "massive wholesale infringement," and seeks $150,000 in damages for every song copied by XM customers using the devices, which went on sale earlier this month. XM, with more than 6.5 million subscribers, said it plays 160,000 different songs every month.
HERE IS THE REST OF THE STORY:
http://yahoo.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=all&storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20060517:MTFH51678_2006-05-17_00-10-03_N16129937&special=true

Thursday, May 04, 2006

 

HD RADIO PROMOTION-JUST PUTTING MORE LIPSTICK ON THE PIG

Advertising expert David Ogilvy once asked, "Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer?"
"Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot."
On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
"William Bernbach echoed Ogilvy's statement. "Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.
"But it was Professor Charles Sandage who turned Ogilvy's complaint into a manifesto: "Advertising is criticized on the ground that it can manipulate consumers to follow the will of the advertiser. The weight of evidence denies this ability. Instead, evidence supports the position that advertising, to be successful, must understand or anticipate basic human needs and wants, and interpret available goods and services in terms of their want-satisfying abilities. This is the very opposite of manipulation."
Here is the link to the rest of the story:
http://www.wizardacademy.com/showmemo.asp?id=249

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

 

HD Radio to Crash and Burn?

This is the link!

Monday, May 01, 2006

 

HD RADIO-NICE, WHEN YOU CAN GET IT, BUT YOU OFTEN CAN'T, EVEN IF YOU TRY.

"The Recepter (HD Radio) was able to tune in 11 of the 14 FM HD (local) stations without much trouble at a house in Arlington, (suburb, just outside of Washington, DC) although in some cases I had to swap antennas. Boston first shipped this radio with a relatively short wire antenna that plugs into the back, then recently added a seven-foot-long wire that can be used as a backup. The company says buyers of earlier models can get the new antenna for free."
(Back to the bad old days of big external radio antennas, that still don't help much).
"At times, tuning in digital radio reminded me of trying to lock in digital TV broadcasts. The signals were weaker than their analog counterparts, as mandated by Federal Communications Commission regulations, and could drop out, then resume for no apparent reason. The HD signals of classical WGMS (104.1 FM) and smooth-jazz WJZW (105.9 FM) never got past that shakiness -- and The Post's WTWP (107.7 FM) was complete static the whole time."
"HD radio on AM delivers a much bigger improvement in sound -- but only if you can get the signal, something the Recepter had serious trouble doing. Whether I used its internal AM antenna or the external one included in the box, it pulled in only one HD AM signal, "SportsTalk" WTEM (980 AM). It detected an HD signal on two others, WKDL (730 AM) and WTWP (1500 AM), but never tuned it in; all-talk WTNT (570 AM) never even showed one."
"As much as I'd like to hear Georgetown basketball games in this clarity next year, however, I probably won't; FCC regulations prohibit AM HD broadcasts after dark, lest they interfere with the reception of distant AM signals."
AND NOW FOR THE REST OF THE STORY:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/29/AR2006042900245.html?referrer=email&referrer=email

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