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When I get into the car for a short trip and don't want to bother connecting my phone I listen to the radio and I often think that it is time to do a real reorg
by jccalhoun 5y ago
When I get into the car for a short trip and don't want to bother connecting my phone I listen to the radio and I often think that it is time to do a real reorganization on how we do radio in the USA.
Sure we have HDRadio but where I live there aren't any. I think it is time to pick a date and switch all radio to digital - and preferably something free and open unlike HDRadio. They would probably end up selling off some of the frequencies but I would rather see it opened up so we could have something like SiriusXM but free over the air or hell even make it subscription over the air.
- jaywalk 5y agoHD Radio is what we're stuck with in the US, thanks to Ibiquity's lobbying efforts many years ago. The only hope is that somehow they could be forced to open it up into a free standard, because the chances of the industry spending money to adopt another digital standard are practically zero.
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- daveevad 5y agoThere's a decent public safety argument that analog radio in cars is an excellent means to communicate with nearly everyone in the event of a major natural disaster, such as an earthquake which would disrupt power in most everyone's homes.