Zunes with HD receivers: True Or False

[dbdigital]

Zunes must be as popular as HD radios as I've never even heard of it. I'm listening to last.fm right now, no cutouts, no interference, got it hooked to my Marantz 2385, 185 WRMS per channels continuous driven @ 8 ohms, 240 @ 4 with double large advents, sounds great.

I'm listening to:
mms://75.125.83.196/kfxm8661
I leave it on for days without the least bit of interference, multipath, HD hash, rebuffering or dropouts. KFXM-LP (analog) comes in perfectly clear 24/7 from 3000 miles away on the internet. No HD radio necessary.

I guess you don't leave home very often. Not all of us are homebound. Its nice to be able to listen to a radio in my car while I'm traveling.

"I guess" you don't travel very far for fear of loosing the digital HD signal.
Freedom is the opposite of being bound. It's nice to have freedom of choice. "The American way".

That crack about being "home bound" is even more out of touch then it sounds with what AT&T has planned for 3G AND the 700 Mhz spectrum.

Read about it here:

http://www.forbes.com/wireless/2008/02/07/ATT-3G-wireless-tech-wire-cx_ew_0227att.html

They already have a chunk of the 700 Mhz spectrum and are building out capabilities to: " use the spectrum for mobile broadcasts or to provide more capacity for existing services", as the article states.  A 3G iPhone is on the way.

The point is that the ability to hear internet radio wirelessly and while being mobile (like riding in a car) is advancing rapidly.

If Microsoft is smart they'll forget HD Radio (if they're even thinking about it at all) and go directly to 3G or WiMax with the Zune.

db

[Nick]

The HD stations that stream can be heard on those too, so it can act like an HD radio

[KB1OKL]

Zunes must be as popular as HD radios as I've never even heard of it. I'm listening to last.fm right now, no cutouts, no interference, got it hooked to my Marantz 2385, 185 WRMS per channels continuous driven @ 8 ohms, 240 @ 4 with double large advents, sounds great.

I'm listening to:
mms://75.125.83.196/kfxm8661
I leave it on for days without the least bit of interference, multipath, HD hash, rebuffering or dropouts. KFXM-LP (analog) comes in perfectly clear 24/7 from 3000 miles away on the internet. No HD radio necessary.

I guess you don't leave home very often. Not all of us are homebound. Its nice to be able to listen to a radio in my car while I'm traveling.

Actually for now I'm content with the analog radio in my car as long as I don't get iBlock sideband noise. I'll just wait until internet radio is a reality in cars if IBOC ruins the bands completely which actually is more and more doubtful every day, radio is backed into a corner and doesn't know how to get out. I hate to say it as I've loved radios and radio for over 40 years but it looks like radio is going the way of the Dodo, and 1996 was the beginning of the end.

[Rich Wood]

i have heard that microsoft will make the new zunes with HD receivers. is this true? and will i be able to pick up distant or fringe HD signals?

Not possible. First, the current chip is too power hungry. There are no portable receivers. There's a rumor of a better chip but it's just a rumor, so far. Unless it's much, much more sensitive than the current receivers you'd be lucky to receive anything beyond the driveway of the transmitter site. Unless you're going to wear a beanie with a yagi on top you're out of luck.

Rich

[Mike Walker]

I've listened to WFAE in Charlotte, 80 miles away, every day for the better part of two years, and it has never, and I repeat NEVER switched to analog. As I write this, I'm listening to "Car Talk". Sounds like "Click and Clack" are in my living room. And I'm not wasting the bandwidth of my broadband connection!

[SUPERCASTER]

Are you squirreling away all your unused bandwidth for a "rainy day" or intending later resale (on E-Bay perhaps)?