Talk:IBiquity

From article
(comment moved from article -- Ferkelparade &pi; 10:45, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC))

In my view the reduction in fidelity to the existing analog FM stereo broadcasts created by piggybacking this technology is simply unacceptable. The treble fidelity is noticably degraded especially in fringe areas. Another problem is that the interference from adjacent channels using this technology is made worse.

HD acronym
According to a WIRED article dated 13 Feb, 2007, the "HD" term does indeed stand for "Hybrid Digital". (http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/02/add_hd_radio_to.html) This article should accurately reflect the company's trademark without regard to whether it is "appropriate" or simply marketing lingo. Fanblade 01:01, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

The problem is that after some recent decisions, nobody seems to acknowledge that any letter/number trademark "means anything" at all.

Intel was denied trademark protection for "486" (even after they pointed out that Boeing was granted protection for things like "747"), and Microsoft stopped saying that "NT" stood for "New Technology" (if it did, it would not be protectable as a trademark). After the courts established that rationale, "NT" didn't stand for anything at all -- it was "just a trademark." Shortly after that, they released "CE" which likewise didn't stand for anything.

"The law" and "logic" often manage to avoid intersecting.

Unless the courts reverse direction, and allow acronyms to be given trademark protection, it's pointless to expect any company to assign meaning to their "letter" trademarks. They may deny meaning with a wink and a nudge, but deny it they must, if they intend to protect it.

209.124.55.236 (talk) 01:27, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

CD Quality?
All the ads on the radio currently promise CD Quality radio. After reading the article here I'm not sure on this. The article says that HD Radio offers 96 kbit/s audio. Isn't that pretty poor quality?

I'm just wondering —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JustinXXVII (talk • contribs) 19:00, 15 May 2007 (UTC).

The codec is more comparable to AAC than MP3. So 96kb should sound as good as better as a 128k MP3. Again, that's not CD quality unless you're only comparing raw bit depth, sampling rates and signal to noise levels. As soon as you turn on HD multicast, you break that 96kb channel up - either to 64kb for the main channel and 1 32kb HD2 channel, or 3 HD channels of 32k each, as some stations are doing now.

76.191.139.200 (talk) 23:15, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Acronym
Wired magazine reported that the "HD" in HD Radio stands for "hybrid digital" because its editors read that it did on Wikipedia or some other mistaken source. Unlike your Microsoft example (about which i know nothing), the HD has never stood for anything specific; it was intended as a consumer-friendly, point-of-reference brand for the next-generation digital radio technology: in-band, on-channel(IBOC) technology, which is the only system approved by the FCC for AM/FM in the US.

Thanks for listening. Happy Thanksgiving. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hdradiopr (talk • contribs) 21:09, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

HD is not CD-quality
I recently purchased a Sony XDR-F1HD tuner and compared it with a Parasound T3 on KING FM, a classical station. No way. HD is audibly inferior to analog. And KING doesn't have the best analog signal.

The issue of sound quality ought to be discussed, but I don't know how to go about it.

WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 16:19, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

DTS bought iBiquity
A recent news article from DTS, inc. states that it bought iBiquity for $172 million and they are planning to merge. 166.172.191.198 (talk) 19:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)