Quote Originally Posted by Woochifer
For a receiver, I doubt that the cost of adding HD Radio capability would be anywhere near $179. Since car audio head units with HD Radio tuners are already available for around $100, the costs on that Sangean tuner would have more to do with how much of the upfront licensing fee (and other component costs) they choose to pass onto consumers than the chipset costs. For example, when Dual added a HD Radio tuner to one of its car audio head units, the revision only added $20 to the list price.
"Only twenty dollars".
THATS FUNNY.
When THE mts stereo standard was adopted it wasnt much, had poor channel seperation,
And the dbx name on it, but it was better than nothing.
RCA shaved off the name DBX name and changed things around, the savings were
about a dime a tv(or something like that) they didnt care about the worsened sound.
THE CHANGE netted them MILLIONS.
THAT "twenty dollars" is huge, and what I was talking about, sure it wont cost 179 bucks to add an HD tuner, it might be less than 20 bucks, but if its ten bucks the cost would be huge for manufacturers.
Ten bucks (let alone twenty) over a hundred thousand players is a MILLION bucks after all



The FCC still had to approve iBiquity's HD Radio proposal before it could move forward, and they retain a regulatory role. This is no different than the HDTV standard, which was developed by a consortium of broadcasters and private companies, standardized by the ITU, and approved by the FCC. If you're referring to the mandatory DTV transition, that's a totally different subject than how the HDTV standard was developed in the first place.

how quickly they forget.
Before the crash at the end of the eighties Japan was a jugernaunt, literally an economic Godzilla.
You think their stuff now is nice, I had a Pioneer receiver with splitscreen, you could adjust the video and see an adusted and unadjusted version on your screen.
And Japan had the only viable HD tv system.
It was analog and took up one and a half channels, and was sat based, but there was real fear that they would be the owner of HD tech, and the thought was that we needed our
own HD SYSTEM. Economics and national pride was at stake.
Zenith and General instruments and a few others got the ball rolling, true, but the govt was behind the scenes, and has been HD friendly ever since.
Without their influence HD wouldnt be nearly as far along.
HD radio, on the other hand, most dont even know it exists
The adoption of HDTV and HDRADIO were completely different things
One was the Manhatten project, the other a fireworks stand