TVTechnology: Advanced HD Radio Features Highlighted

01.07.2010

Advanced HD Radio Features Highlighted

Several advanced HD Radio features are on display at CES, according to iBiquity Digital and other organizations.

Album art is showcased. This is the ability to deliver images synchronized to audio programming on HD Radio broadcasts. The aim is to provide listeners a richer multimedia experience. IBiquity says it’s developing a software development kit for receiver manufacturers to aid feature integration, planned for later this year.

Clear Channel Real-Time Traffic with Journaline Information Services will be displayed on the JVC KD-NT3HDT in-dash receiver.

Cydle Corp.is displaying a portable navigation device with a built-in HD Radio Electronic Program Guide.

Protected content delivered to targeted HD Radio receivers, including premium sports content and radio reading services for the visually impaired, is on display.

A SiPort-based data development platform for advanced traffic and navigation and album art is also featured at the show.

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Posted by: Kevin S.

Fri, 01-08-2010 - 8:52AM Report Comment

The CES will come and go, ibiquity will have blown their wad then go back in their hole, consumers will ignore digital radio and another lackluster year will pass before us. Is this what you really want buddy? Watch it happen.

Posted by: HDRadioFarce

Fri, 01-08-2010 - 4:25PM Report Comment

The free market is not totally deciding, with the influence iBiquity has over the FCC. Of course, the dude from ba.broadcast has to put in his usual personal attacks. I suspect that all of these "announcements" from CES by iBiquity, is posturing to influence the FCC into an FM-HD power increase. It's always "next year" for Struble - I don't believe a word of it. Ford has promised HD Radio since 2007, but it never materialized. By visits to my blog from Ford and the FCC, they must be aware of all of the complaints from Auto consumers about HD Radio, especially BMW - with their trouble-shooting guide and message boards filled wiht complaints. Od Struble is salivating over an IPO, but my blog has gotten visitors from iBiquity investors, and most Wall Street firms.

Posted by: Anonymous

Fri, 01-08-2010 - 1:26PM Report Comment

Its not the FCC's place to get involved with "Consumer Interest"

Posted by: Anonymous

Fri, 01-08-2010 - 9:15AM Report Comment

Off the record, I’ve heard the FCC is reluctant to grant a power increase for digital radio due to "undemonstrated consumer acceptance" and "lack of significant consumer response". Could this be why iBiquity is so insistent on all these gimmicks hoping to find something to give them traction? Seems plausible to me.

Posted by: Anonymous

Fri, 01-08-2010 - 8:23AM Report Comment

Nothing compelling here. Most of this is just iBiquity posturing. Seven years of the "rollout" has produced essentially zero growth. Check out all of the hd radio products that have gone into oblivion. Technology products today are a success with months of their introduction. Within a year they are made or broke. Digital radio is a failure. Play with the numbers all you like.

Posted by: Anonymous

Sat, 01-09-2010 - 7:48AM Report Comment

"The ability to deliver images synchronized with radio..." Yeah. Right. Sounds like a line from "The Usual Suspects", doesn't it? Remember the scene in which Dean Keaton pontificated to the French investors that his restaurant wouldn't 'change taste with the wallpaper' or some such drivel? Didn't Special Agent Dave Kujan then sashay in and whisk him downtown for 'another' meeting? Wouldn't it be great if a real-life Dave Kujan were to sashay in and whisk this usurious jammer known as HD Radio away for good? Does 'synchronized images...' sound familiar? It should. A 'brilliant industry leader' proposed this by saying, "we flash 'Buy Pepsi Now!' while we air the Pepsi commercial." Wow! Va-va-veem! Hup! Hup! Twen'y Three - Skidoooo! Is that why you listen to your trusted reliable AM&FM analog radio? To be treated like a Skinnerian pigeon or some hapless serf in a New Age Concrete Gulag? Me neither. Please. Spare us. Here's what HD is doing to radio: Costing stations plenty to install HD transmitters to which no one listens and jamming airwaves owned by the American citizens. HD costs American citizens plenty because PBS blows millions on HD FM transmitters which create that joyful buzzing sound of interference all over your formerly pristine FM dial. And for what? To air tediously predictable leftist propaganda? Does that justify State Sponsored Jamming? Isn't that what East Bloc thugocracies did during the Cold War to deny their citizen-prisoners the truth? The FCC can do as it pleases, but citizens walked away from HD's self-serving 'thin the herd' jamming. The sooner HD walks, the less likely citizens won't walk from radio entirely. Paul Vincent Zecchino Manasota Key, Florida 10 January, 2010

Posted by: Anonymous

Thu, 01-07-2010 - 3:59PM Report Comment

Re: the earliest comment: Let the free market decide. Calling automakers fools is not what's going to make or break HD Radio. Next thing I'll hear is HD Radio Farce calling listeners fools because they like HD Radio.

Posted by: Anonymous

Thu, 01-07-2010 - 2:21PM Report Comment

Everything has a troubleshooting guide. There are a lot of good things about HD Radio. Sounds like the coming stuff is even cooler.

Posted by: Anonymous

Thu, 01-07-2010 - 11:30AM Report Comment

What happens when these fools (automakers) find out that HD Radio simply doen't work well: http://tinyurl.com/ygbspcb

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