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What is HD Radio, then? https://hdradio.com/get-a-radio/new-cars/ https://hdradio.com/get-a-radio/new-cars/

vel0city 6y ago
HD 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 ago
  It 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 ago
    Compared 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 ago
    It 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 ago
It is that thing we are seeing a slow adoption of in the US :D

HD 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 ago
It 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 ago
  Compared 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 ago
  It 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 ago

It is that thing we are seeing a slow adoption of in the US :D