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The US digital radio effort has been complicated and slow to ramp up. Many digital streams are commercial free in an attempt to drive receiver adoption. Many
by ddingus 6y ago
The US digital radio effort has been complicated and slow to ramp up. Many digital streams are commercial free in an attempt to drive receiver adoption.
Many cars still ship with no digital capability.
Ordinary FM makes reasonable sense here.
- RL_Quine 6y agoIt’s not an american product though.
- ddingus 6y agoDo they believe they will sell in the US?
- dvtrn 6y agoDo you believe it wont? teenage engineering has a very consistent following among audio geeks around the globe, as other comments are enthusiastically alluding to, I'd have already bought one if they weren't already sold out
- ddingus 6y agoOh I think it will. And analog FM works in many places around the globe, including the US. They should do well with that thing.
- joezydeco 6y agoWhat is HD Radio, then? https://hdradio.com/get-a-radio/new-cars/ https://hdradio.com/get-a-radio/new-cars/
- vel0city 6y agoHD Radio is a digital radio standard in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Many new cars are sold with HD Radio. Many new cars are sold without HD Radio. Go look at some new car listings, you'll find tons without HD Radio. Many will only say AM/FM. Sometimes they'll also mention Radio Data System (RDS), the thing that shows a snippet of text with song titles and station names. Some will mention HD Radio Ready, as in you can buy an additional module to upgrade the OEM stereo with an HD Radio decoder, this is also common with satellite radio. Sometimes a car will have HD Radio.
- joezydeco 6y agoIt was a rhetorical response to the statement "The US digital radio effort has been complicated and slow to ramp up". The answer was "it exists and has been ramped up for a while". And I'm not even talking about SDARS.
- ddingus 6y agoCompared to analog FM, in the US, adoption has been slow. When they run ADS on the HD streams, we will know it is much closer. Some regions are almost there. Many are not.
- vel0city 6y agoIt has existed for a while and has been ramping up more and more over the last decade. I'm probably one of a small handful of people I know who listen to/care about HD Radio in their cars or their home stereos. Even decently technical people I know are still often surprised to find out about digital subchannels available on the radios they already have, whenever they actually have an HD Radio. Its been nearly two decades since HD Radio was chosen as the standard in the US, and yet in 2018 still nearly half of the new cars sold had only regular analog radios. Nearly 20 years and HD Radio was only on less than a fifth of all cars on the road. http://www.insideradio.com/more-than-half-of-new-cars-now-equipped-with-hd-radio/article_055842a0-3f18-11e9-af44-abb5c736f701.html http://www.insideradio.com/more-than-half-of-new-cars-now-eq...
- ddingus 6y agoIt is that thing we are seeing a slow adoption of in the US :D
- baybal2 6y agoUSA drew a short stick in the digital radio battle, by deciding on using a proprietary standard. The rest of the world has the DMB vs. DAB competition driving the adoption, and technical improvements, while USA still had the same HD Radio of 10 years ago, and near no mobile receivers.
- ddingus 6y agoI agree, BTW. We could have had a much quicker, cheaper system. Then there is the whole artificial highs above about 8khz thing...