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Article #774Re: HD RADIO is no worse than DAB or DRM radio
From: Telamon
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:49
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:49
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In article <D8ydnYkv6ZXz42LbnZ2dnUVZ_smnnZ2d@giganews.com>, "Brenda Ann" <brendad@shinbiro.com> wrote: > <SFTVratings_troy@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:1191148457.497049.258140@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > > Frank Dresser wrote: > >> "SFTV_troy" <SFTV_troy@yahoo.com> wrote in message > >> > > >> > Wouldn't it be cool to have 5.1 surround from your radio? > >> > >> Neither AM nor FM are currently broadcast close to thier technical > >> fidelity > >> limits. Plenty of people are happy with the current mid-fi radio and > >> perfect audio reproduction, even if it were possible, would not bring in > >> more listeners. > > > > I agree with that. What would attract people to HD Radio is seeing > > their favorite stations (like mine: FM97) multiply into 3 or 4 > > channels..... thus giving more choices to the listener. > > For every additional channel a station adds in IBOC, their main channel > bitrate MUST suffer, as bandwidth is taken away from it, so it of necessity > MUST cut back the bitrate. DAB in the UK suffers greatly from this. Back > when they first started broadcasting, reports are that the Eureka system > sounded quite good, but as more streams were added, and the bandwidth and > bitrate of all stations had to be throttled back, complaints of artifacting > and poor audio reproduction started coming in. For God's sake the guy claims to be a digital engineer. Clearly he should understand this elementary concept. You shouldn't have to explain it to him. -- Telamon Ventura, California
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