From: William R. Walsh on
Hi!

> So you pay 100 bucks for a receiver and get to listen
> to the same commercial broadcast but now in near CD
> quality sound?

I guess you could say that, but I'm not sure that a good analog FM
signal wouldn't already qualify as "near CD quality" sound...especially
on a good tuner.

I wanted to see what HD Radio was about (especially the subchannels),
but I wasn't about to pay any $100 to do so! After looking inside, I'm
convinced that someone is doing a pretty good job at inflating the price!

> Being one that listens to music on the road I got really
> disgusted with the ever increasing amount of commercials.

Me too. And it's hard to find what I want to hear on the radio anyway.
Stations seem so mercurial in their format changes any more...what
format was on the radio an hour ago might not be there later...

My solution has been to use an iPod, plugged into a cassette shell
adapter or stereo miniplug to RCA connector cable. It's a beautiful
thing to have on a long road trip. Before I had an iPod, I'd stick an
old laptop under the seat and let it rip through the same cassette shell
adapter. The battery held it for most trips, and when it didn't, I
already had a power inverter handy.

I also never hear a bad song that way.

I haven't subscribed to satellite radio mainly because I can't listen to
it on just any old receiver. So far as I know, I'd have to take the same
receiver everywhere, and that's just an invitation for me to
lose/misplace it.

William
From: William R. Walsh on
Here's the complete review:

http://greyghost.mooo.com/nshdt-review/

William
From: William R. Walsh on
Hi!

> Asked Meathead, the village idiot.

Oh for cryin' out loud...don't you have *anything* better to do? Isn't the
purpose of this group to ask electronics related questions and get answers?

Sure, a web search can answer the question. So can this group, and I don't
think it unreasonable that they do!

I don't know how many people have heard HD Radio or even really care about
it. I don't know anyone who has an HD Radio tuner, nor have I seen one in my
adventures.

William


From: PeterD on
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 01:18:46 -0600, "William R. Walsh"
<newsgroups1(a)idontwantjunqueemail.walshcomptech.com> wrote:

>Hi!
>
>> Asked Meathead, the village idiot.
>
>Oh for cryin' out loud...don't you have *anything* better to do? Isn't the
>purpose of this group to ask electronics related questions and get answers?
>
>Sure, a web search can answer the question. So can this group, and I don't
>think it unreasonable that they do!
>
>I don't know how many people have heard HD Radio or even really care about
>it. I don't know anyone who has an HD Radio tuner, nor have I seen one in my
>adventures.
>
>William
>

William, a resident net-nanny, lives a quiet secluded life, without
any contact with the real world.
From: William R. Walsh on
Hi!

> William, a resident net-nanny, lives a quiet secluded life, without
> any contact with the real world.

Heh. Not hardly. Nice troll, though. Have a great day. :-)

William