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Re: digitalitis

Posted by dudeupshaw@cogeco.ca (A) on September 18, 2006 at 21:05:35

In Reply to: digitalitis posted by belyin on September 18, 2006 at 19:13:02:

I cannot speak for the USA or New Orleans with any authority but I
recently had my tuner upgraded at Magnum dynalab and had a similar
discussion with Larry Zurowski.
He told me that a few years ago in Canada they were pushing to go all
digital.But they could not get anyone to buy into the technology.
Today every single digital tranmitter has been turned off.
He also told me tha there are still a half million analog tuners
sold worldwide and that analog is very much alive.
I also read somewhere a few years ago that the American broadcast
standard that was adopted called for a dual transmission.That the digital signal was going to be broadcast within the analog signal so
as not to make analog obsolete.This standard was very different
than the European standard that Canada had adopted and being next
door neighbours to the US who adopted a different standard,was a major reason for Canada abandoning the digital broadcast.
Larry Zurowski says that they will inthe future offer XM radio along
with analog but he says it is an oxymoron to get good sound form
digital which has a lower bit rate than cd.The case to go digital
is not a slam dunk by any means and if the result in Canada is any indicator analog FM will be around for a long long time yet.
But only time will tell for certain and Larry may just want to sell tuners.

Duane Upshaw

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