HD Radio

[paultyler_82]

HD Radio is nice, but it's overhyped, it's not a standard yet, and not every area has stations that broadcast it, so it really depends on your region more than anything... kinda like that RDS technology that one of my cars used to have on the stereo, I think maybe one station in town actually broadcasted RDS data... I'm not knocking it, it's nice when it works, but I just can't justify blowing the coin on a feature that I can't really use as often, or that the technology for may fade into obscurity (Betamax... Minidisc...) Maybe when HD Radio becomes a standard I'll get it, kind of the same thing with BluRay and HDDVD, I'm waiting to see which format wins before I sink my cash into it.

[eTiMaGo]

Originally Posted by paultyler_82

HD Radio is nice, but it's overhyped, it's not a standard yet, and not every area has stations that broadcast it, so it really depends on your region more than anything... kinda like that RDS technology that one of my cars used to have on the stereo, I think maybe one station in town actually broadcasted RDS data... I'm not knocking it, it's nice when it works, but I just can't justify blowing the coin on a feature that I can't really use as often, or that the technology for may fade into obscurity (Betamax... Minidisc...) Maybe when HD Radio becomes a standard I'll get it, kind of the same thing with BluRay and HDDVD, I'm waiting to see which format wins before I sink my cash into it.

Weird... RDS is pretty popular in Europe, at least in France more or less every channel has it, it's quite useful too, especially for nationwide channels broadcasting on different frequencies, it will automatically change the frequency when you take long trips.