"Oppie" wrote in message
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If the technology is everything that they are advertizing it is, somebody
will hack it.

The technology looks to be OK, but it's nothing any decent group couldn't cook
up on their own: They use OFDM and some standard CoDecs, the "proprietary"
part is just in how they put together the entire bitstream and multiplex it
amongst the carriers. I agree that -- in all likelihood -- sooner or later
someone will hack it. Heck, if HD Radio *does* catch on, there's a good
chance that a well-funded Chinese engineering group will do so! (Plenty of
money to be made selling cheap radios...)

I haven't listened to one of the HD radios yet but most of the broadcasters
in the metro New York City area are transmitting with it. Right now, I find
it annoying as hell as most of the HD broadcasts make a background whine in
my 2001 Saturn (premium) car radio.

Yeah, the whole idea of, "we'll jus stick this spread signal off in the far
sidebands of the regular FM channel, and it'll just be a bit of noise that
traditional radios won't hear" is predicated upon the notion that those
"traditional" radios will somehow start having much sharper IF filters than
they often do, or that the listener simply won't object to the whine.

---Joel