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Broadcasters Seeing More Tools for HD Radio
Radio World reports that the NAB2006 conference turned heads on HD Radio because of demos, tools: New products across all aspects of a station's audio stream were demonstrated at the National Association of Broadcasters show, and Radio World said that this is helping to convince radio broadcasters that HD Radio has arrived--even if home receivers have not.
The rules for use of the spectrum on which in-channel, on-band (IBOC) digital broadcasting have changed slightly, allowing 150 Kbps of bandwidth, and this report says that Harris and BE demonstrated four-audio-channel multicasts that took up just 120 Kbps of that space. (KUOW-FM in Seattle is multicasting three channels, but not at the same fidelities.)
The editor in chief notes, "I would have liked to come to NAB and found dozens of high-impact displays with radios from a half-dozen manufacturers and signs screaming about this exciting new format. After all, stations are telling listeners about it on the air. There were only a few Boston Acoustics and Radiosophy models scattered about."
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