E para ouvir a rádio em HD? Já há aparelhos no mercado

Where Are The HD Radios?
Sep. 23, 2005
By Paul Heine
PHILADELPHIA -- If a 5.1 surround-sound tree falls in a digital forest, does anyone hear it?
iBiquity director of broadcast marketing Don Kelly offered an update on the most important question in the digital radio discussion taking place at the National Assn. of Broadcasters Radio Show here: Where are the radios?
Five different after-market car stereo HD receivers are currently available from a variety of manufacturers, he said, including JVC, Panasonic and Kenwood. A Boston Acoustics tabletop HD radio is expected in late October or early November.
Radiosophy will deliver portable receivers later this year and high-end units from Polk Audio will be available early next year. Kelly says at least another 15-17 manufacturers will have product coming to market.
“There will be hundreds of thousands of [HD] receivers in listeners hands in 2006,” Kelly said. 2500-3000 stations will beam digital signals within the next 18-24 months, covering 95% of the U.S. population, he added.
Noting that it took FM about seven years to achieve parity with AM, Kelly said the HD radio tipping point will occur sooner, because technology moves faster today than it did in the ‘70s.