High Definition Radio is Here

nfranzen submits this story/advertisement: "Yesterday, I had the opportunity to buy the first High Definition (HD) Radio in the United States. HD Radio, invented by iBiquity Digital, adds a digital channel to the sidebands of an existing analog FM signal. The technology is still pretty new, but I can tell you first-hand that listening to my favorite local FM station in HD sounds just like I am listening to a CD. Well, except for the commercials (grin). Here are some links to local TV news coverage and a news release for more info. HD receivers will hit the open market following the Consumer Electronics Show next week in Vegas." We had an old story about the FCC approving these digital broadcasts in the FM radio bands.

Comments

programming

[master_gilbert]

yea but will it have a good selection of music

Insert RIAA comment here

[Mr Guy]

Comment should include the following:

Piracy Claims
Explanation of digital to digital broadcasting
Comments about how to jack this device into Linux
Mention of Kazaa
Indignant remark about the difference between thievery and infringement

Re:Insert RIAA comment here

[Have Blue]

Hopeful comment to the effect that DVD Jon cracks this quickly.

Re:Insert RIAA comment here

[Steve Franklin]

As long as I don't have to buy a digital-to-analog converter to listen on my "old" Kenwood. Can't anybody leave anything alone anymore? What's next, a digital insert for our noses so we can smell digitally? I know, a digital condom! Why experience plain old sex when you can have digital sex! Is it April 1st already?

Re:Insert RIAA comment here

[fermion]

Radio, WTF is radio?

Re:Insert RIAA comment here

[Phexro]

Digital sex can be fun, just wash your hands afterwards. If you don't you might have a problem with your digital smell.

Re:Insert RIAA comment here

[Anonymous Coward]

Well Clear Channel stations wouldn't be so bad if they had just spent the extra $50 for room to store 15 Gb of music instead of just 4 Gb.

spoilt

[relrelrel]

High definition photos of Mars and now High definition radio? I do believe /. is spoiling us.

Double violation?

[WTFmonkey]

If you violate a violation, are you still violating?

Do two violations make a compliance?

These are the questions that plague mankind...

Re:Double violation?

[Mysticalfruit]

Just because I run a 8' tall Tesla coil on my back deck doesn't mean I'm purposely transmitting across every frequency all at once ;-) it just happens that way...

Oh no!!

[infolib]

Digital?? Thieves they are, thieves I say! Quick, pass some legislation to outlaw recievers (or at least make sure they cant *shudder* record anyting!)

Sincerely,

Your recording industry representative

Your radio station stinks.

[mekkab]

Their playlist is the same-old same-old. Listening to it in CD quality won't make it sound any better.

Re: Solution looking for a problem

[Black Parrot]

> Yay, HD radio . . . wait, why do we want this again?

So that when they compress the dogshit out of your old favorite and speed it up by 15% to make time for more commercials, you can hear the DSP artifacts in all their ear-grating glory.