HD Radio
October 2, 2007 by Greg
After listening to an HD radio for a week I’m ready to jump on the bandwagon. Hybrid digital (not high definition) radio works by adding additional layers of data to existing radio streams. This allows a standard FM radio station to add on CD quality content in a static-less format.
While not all stations have switched over, or offer the same fresh content, the stations I listen to have. My radio tuner is regularly set to NPR, classical, and jazz, and all of these options are transmitting in digital in Colorado. While I can’t quite get the jazz station to lock in (the radio keeps falling back to the FM transmission), the receiver antennas and distribution technology is steadily improving.
Learn more at iBiquity’s HDRadio.com, and wikipedia’s HD Radio entry. Thanks for the loaner Eric!
HD channel programming is abysmal, reception is problematic, HD radios are expensive and offer consumers no benefits - consmers are totally apathetic towards this HD Radio farce:
http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com/
Listen to pandora.com, slacker.com, or last.fm instead.
you sure hate the hd radio eh?
Yup, F HD radio - its just a way for terrestrial radio to deliver even more crap and ads than they already do.
Its all about Sirius, the quality is less but the content is so much better.