Can HD radio help me pick up chicks?

[musiconradio.com]

When the technology is offered at little or no cost. Small markets might embrace it.

[Zach]

There's a lot of things iBiquity needs to do to speed the embrace of the technology, but all of them cost $$$ (either in upgrades or lost revenues) which they are too blinded to push.

They need to drop the license fees.  They needed to wait and push for higher powers right out.  They need to drop official support for AM HD.  They need to work the bugs out in both the radios and encoders.

If they'd just had some patience early on, the system could have turned out quite different.  Not only would they likely have been allowed a little higher power right out of the gate, but a better PAC might've been worked in, making sound quality and robustness better.

[Nick]

Years after the higher IBUZ power was approved, most FM HD stations are still using the lower power. They don't want to replace their expensive transmitters that work perfectly well just to broadcast IBUZ at -14 dBc.

A chief engineer of a major market cluster told me that he will not increase the HD power unless the transmitter fails beyond repair and needs to be replaced.

[mmnassour]

A chief engineer of a major market cluster told me that he will not increase the HD power unless the transmitter fails beyond repair and needs to be replaced.

Prediction:  when that finally happens, it will simply be a reason to get rid of it.

[Nick]

It takes content that I like on an HD2 for me to replace my car radio with an HD radio. Not a gimmick like a false promise that I can impress a lady by letting her play with my HD radio. Even if a girl tells me that she will do anything I want with me, on the condition that I put an HD radio in my car, I won't "downgrade" my car radio. I promised a long time ago that if New York City gets a true dance station (not Pride Radio that's currently on WKTU-HD2, but more like Club Phusion, B96-HD2 Chicago, KDWB-HD2 Minneapolis, Area 95.5-HD2 DC) on HD2, I will put an HD radio in my car. Besides, an HD2 dance station will last longer than the average length of my relationships.

[Radio Boogie]

Only one thought as to how this could work:

Golddigger "Hmm. this moron has an HD radio... he has money to burn!"

[Savage]

Or: Golddigger:  This moron actually has an HD Radio.  And he's talking to me about it!  NEXT!!

[KB1OKL]

Or, golddigger: This moron wasted his money on an HD radio, what a loser!

[Zach]

Or, golddigger: This moron wasted his money on an HD radio, what a loser!

Nevermind HD radio, find me a woman who would find radio itself at all cool.  They pretty much don't exist.  You pull out your little Sony DX machine and you'll also be pegged a loser.  Trust me, I know from experience.  Radio is just not cool to the opposite sex anymore.  In fact I'd say that outside us radio nerds it's not cool to anyone under 40 anymore.

[dumber than a box of hair]

When the technology is offered at little or no cost. Small markets might embrace it.

IOW, when pigs fly.