Cambridge SoundWorks 820HD radio premieres at CEDIA
Cambridge SoundWorks has thrown its hat into the HD Radio ring with its 820HD, which debuted last week at CEDIA. HD Radio, the new digital radio format, for those of you keeping score at home, is now available from about 1,000 stations who are simulcasting in HD and in traditional formats -- which is still less than 10 percent of all American radio. Furthermore, the price of a new HD radio still remains significantly higher than a pocket or tabletop analog radio. How much higher? Well, this newest offering will set you back $300 when it becomes available in November -- and that little $20 "transistor" radio your Mom gave you in 1987 still works great, doesn't it? So yes, we're still listening to National Public Radio and baseball games in analog, thank you very much.[Via PC World]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Josh @ Sep 17th 2006 11:31PM
yeah i agree with electrogeek I never just listen to the radio... if I'm not in the car there's virtually no point to it... unless you're just dying to listen to commercials in HD
Big Sam @ Sep 18th 2006 12:12AM
I have plenty of podcasts to keep me busy, I hardly ever listen to radio anymore.
John Anderson @ Sep 18th 2006 2:54AM
Same here, no need for any radio,
if I would spent some money it woukld rather be on sthg like this:
http://www.tropicalleather.com/Thaiartsandcraftswholesale-p-46.html
but this would be much cheaper :-)
Gerard Rejskind @ Sep 18th 2006 12:57PM
It will be an especially hard sell considering that the "HD" (high definition?) monniker is a cruel joke. The signal is compressed as no digital signal has been compressed before. HD Radio boldly goes where none of us is likely to follow.
TVGenius @ Sep 19th 2006 7:59PM
How they expect to sell any HD radios is beyond me, even if they were a third of the current prices. You simply cannot sell devices that consumers won't want to use. iPods and satellite radio succeed because they offer what terrestrial radio refuses to offer: what the listeners WANT to hear, with no advertising. Given that well over ten million people are now paying for satellite radio, and Apple has sold an amazing number of iPods, you think these fools would have gotten it through their thick skulls that HD radio is the next Betamax.
msmith @ Oct 9th 2006 6:19PM
I own an iPod, I have a short commute, and I listen to the radio all the time. I just wished it sounded better. I want local content (weather, sports, traffic) that I can't get from satellite - And as to compression - let's dicuss iPod or satellite - they both use quite a bit and sound fine...