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H.R. 7157, The Radio All Digital Channel Receiver Act (19 comments ↓)
H.R. 7157 would require that radios used in the satellite digital radio service be capable of receiving terrestrial digital radio signals.
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Greg Smith
Senator Markey's bill to require mandatory inclusion of HD Radio into Satrad receivers is absurd. Senator Markey has received over $10,000 in campaign money from the NAB. HD Radio has been rejected by consumers, so the NAB/iBiquity is trying to force this flawed digital technology, that suffers from dropouts and poor coverage, onto consumers. The fool Markey doesn't realize that this will not affect "Satellite Radio Ready" car receivers, or virtually all portable Satrad receivers. There needs to be a Congressional investigation into this HD Radio scam:
http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com
HD Radio is a complete give-away of our airways to iBiquity/HD Radio Alliance.
bobyoung
Ed Markey the sponsor of this bill has so far in 2008 gotten 33% of his campaign donations from the telecommunications industry. I just wonder if this has influenced his thinking just a tad bit. HD was DOA last year and is even more dead this year (Yogi Berraism), is a terrible technology that doesn't work, cuts down receive range and interferes with adjacent channels. Do I want this forced into a Satrad receiver? Hell no!
Bob Young
Millbury, MA
James Wilhelm
To this date, iBiquity HD radio hasn't been accepted by consumers with millions and millions of dollars spent. After several years of implemetation current HD radio sales are still almost zero. The FCC decreed that the market should decide. Let the Market decide! Ed Markey has a very limited understanding of the technical issues and should stay out of private business. Hasn't the current financial problems been enough to convince legislatures to stay out of private business? Please let the market decide and quit trying manipulate private industry and consumers
Brian Gregory
I totally agree with the above posters. What many do not realize is that HD Radio/IBOC (In-Band-Off-Channel) was authorized by the FCC knowing that it would jam our broadcast bands. The HD Radio Alliance represents the larger 50kw stations, which are investors in iBiquity, and these stations are jamming the smaller, competitive radio stations off the dial. Supporting H.R. 7157 is authorizing futher jamming of our airways, and this scheme by iBiquity. Here is a Stop IBOC site developed by a group of broadcastes/engineers that tell the whole story:
http://stopiboc.com
EH
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a congressman, you might support such a measure. But I repeat myself.
Bob Tarnoczy
What a ridiculous bill. Why not make radio companies freely distribute satellite programming and pay Sirius/XM for the cost of carrying the signal. If I give money to Representative Markey to require driving with your eyes closed, would he present a Bill to do that?
Bill Gullicksen
This bill is ridiculous! Maybe Verizon should be forced to carry Comcast cable and Comcast should allow access to Directv over their cable as well. If the auto dealers want to include an HD radio in addition to SAT and normal terrestrial radio, then fine, but XM/Sirius should not be forced to do it and absorb the cost. Their competitors. If politicians would start representing their constituents instead of lobbyists, we wouldn't be in the economic mess that we're in now. Stop wasting tax payer money on these ridiculous bills and investigating football video taping and baseball players using steroids, etc. Do the people's work and stop these ridiculous crusades.
Michael Britton
Conflict of interest? I should say so! Is Senator Markey trying to be referred to as "Senator Malarkey"? Sure seems so. The NAB has a lot of money to spread around, evidently, so rather than pump it into efforts to seriously improve terrestrial radio they choose to bribe a US Senator to introduce a nonsensical bill like this. Let's just make every provider of every digital service carry the services and programming of every other digital provider... Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, all HD radio, all satellite radio, dogs and cats living together (to paraphrase Ghostbusters)... it's insane, and Senator Markey deserves an Agent Gibbs slap on the back oif the head foir trying this stunt.
Michael Britton
Conflict of interest? I should say so! Is Senator Markey trying to be referred to as "Senator Malarkey"? Sure seems so. The NAB has a lot of money to spread around, evidently, so rather than pump it into efforts to seriously improve terrestrial radio they choose to bribe a US Senator to introduce a nonsensical bill like this. Let's just make every provider of every digital service carry the services and programming of every other digital provider... Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, all HD radio, all satellite radio, dogs and cats living together (to paraphrase Ghostbusters)... it's insane, and Senator Markey deserves an Agent Gibbs slap on the back oif the head foir trying this stunt.
Nick
No one cares about HDRadio. The market has shown people prefer variety and freedom of choice, not sound quality. This is apparent when we see the losers who invested in HDRadio try to make it...a law? Next they will lobby to put an AM tuner in iPods.
paul vincent zecchino
HD? Here's the juice:
Older listeners don't want it.
Younger listeners laugh at it.
Manufacturers dislike it.
Retailers can't sell it.
Everyone objects to HD jamming.
Constitutionalists well know Representative Markey's zeal for attacking the Bill of Rights.
HD is DOA. Why is Rep. Markey trying to resurrect a stiff, putrescent turkey called HD? Just to violate our First Ammendment right to hear what we want on our public airwaves, on behalf of a few BigRadio monopolists?
HD is finished. This questionable bill should enjoy the same outcome. Those who continue to press for HD hasten the demise of radio.
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
04 October, 2008
Mike Nassour
This would be a good idea, as long as all HD radios made in the future also have satellite capability.
Booble Struble
"Sirius XM Radio (SIRI) trading at 47 Cents, Really?"
"The dirge is just about over for Sirius XM (SIRI). The stock has marched down so far that the market is saying there is little prospect for recovery. The company is plagued by a combination of two things it cannot escape: tremendous debt and a business which has lost most of its growth prospects... Sirius has more than $2 billion in debt. That could not be refinanced today."
http://www.thestockmasters.com/SIRI-100908.html
SIRI is terminal - force one dead product into another. LOL!
pocket change
You can bring a horse to water, but you make it drink?
The reason people buy Satellite radio services in the first place is they’re searching for
something more than what’s offered by terrestrial broadcasters.
This is a total waste of Tax Payers time! Let consumers decide for themselves, let the free market work. The real motivation here is lobbyist money. A bribe!
Maybe you should make law, all terrestrial radio’s capable of receiving, satellite service,
Wifi, Wimax, and IBOC.
John Fever
I believe that ALL HD Radios should be required to receive satellite radio. All HD radios should be required to decode C-Quam and Kahn AM stereo. All MP3 players should be required to receive both AM and FM radio signals. How's that?
Thomas Shanks
So you think it's a good idea to force the addition of a subscription service to regular radios? You really hate the poor, don't you?
Thomas Shanks
I really look forward to being able to receive HD Radio in cars. But the radios aren't there. Why? iBiquity sucks! It's a great protocol with a not-so-great owner who wants to milk it for all it's worth. Once the cost of the chips and licensing is under $10 a radio, it ought to be forced into every car and home so people can finally hear the wonderful multicast programming... but not before then.
And can HD AM. HD is only good for FM.
Clint
OK. As long as they require that my toaster make coffee too.
Roscoe Browning
Let's pass a law forcing Senator Malarky to listen to 8 hours of HD programming a day. Then maybe he will see all of our points.