i listen to the FM dial a lot. i like the radio. i'm not all big into audio ice, but i DO love the HDTV projector at home..

that said. wtf is HD radio? how gimmicky is it? etc.

 

HD radio is Digital Radio. If the reception is good enough, you will be listening to CD quality radio. No Static & Free. Most major socal stations are already broadcasting.
A little more info: http://www.ibiquity.com/

 

^Not 100% correct. Digital radio is a stronger broadcast, but you will NOT notice the quality changes. The only thing HD radio has is it transmits data, thus you will see the name of the song,station, artist, etc on your radio.

Its a complete waste of money.

 

[QUOTE=NFRs2000NYC,Dec 22 2005, 03:50 AM] ^Not 100% correct.

 

i think the term you are looking for is RDS (Radio Data System) and that has been around since the mid to late 80s...


"Digital" radio is not a new concept, it has been in the UK (and im assuming most of Europe) for a few years now, under the guise of DAB (digital audio broadcasting).

I found this snippet of info on the web...

 

That's the one, and yes, RDS has been around a long time. I understand that the HD Radio concept here is to piggyback the digital info on the standard analog signal so that there is backward compatibility. I forgot that the UK has had all digital over the air radio available for a for a while. Do you know if its popular?

 

I moved away from the UK right as it started to be introduced so I cannot talk from personal experience, but it does seem to be a popular alternative - mainly because of the expanded services and channels that are offered over terrestrial radio.

I guess you could think of it as an comparable alternative to the "pay" satellite radio (xm/sirius) that we have here.

 

I thought HD radio was just regular radio with more pixels. HPH