Industries call HD signals biggest advance since FM
By Frank D. Roylance Sun reporter
November 13, 2007
Now they want you to replce your radios.
The consumer electronics and broadcasting industries - the same types pushing us to replace our trusty analog TVs with whizz-bang digital sets before all broadcasts go digital in 2009 - are busy deploying a new radio technology called "HD Digital."
The cheapest new digital receiver will set you back at least a hundred bucks, and better ones go for $200 to $600. But they're more than worth it, advocates say.
As far as radio broadcasting goes, I think this is the most significant advance since [Edwin] Armstrong invented FM in 1933," said Mike Starling, chief technical officer at National Public Radio. NPR stations such as Baltimore's WYPR are in the thick of it.
There are critics, of course
Read more from the Baltimore Sun at:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.hdradio13nov13,0,2468646.story
By Frank D. Roylance Sun reporter
November 13, 2007
Now they want you to replce your radios.
The consumer electronics and broadcasting industries - the same types pushing us to replace our trusty analog TVs with whizz-bang digital sets before all broadcasts go digital in 2009 - are busy deploying a new radio technology called "HD Digital."
The cheapest new digital receiver will set you back at least a hundred bucks, and better ones go for $200 to $600. But they're more than worth it, advocates say.
As far as radio broadcasting goes, I think this is the most significant advance since [Edwin] Armstrong invented FM in 1933," said Mike Starling, chief technical officer at National Public Radio. NPR stations such as Baltimore's WYPR are in the thick of it.
There are critics, of course
Read more from the Baltimore Sun at:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.hdradio13nov13,0,2468646.story
