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Originally Posted by Vincent Ferrari
CD Quality on HD is 125kbps. If you multicast, that immediately divides that bandwidth in half to 60kbps. FM Radio quality is considered the 25-50 kbps range. Am I that far off, really?
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I've never heard HD Radio in my life, but from a bit rate perspective, the difference between an MP3 at 32kbps and an MP3 at 64kbps is massive. So the difference between FM radio at 25kbps and HD Radio at 60kbps is likely to be just as huge. This is probably all a matter of personal experience - Perry has heard HD Radio sound really good, and it sounds like you've heard it sound really bad. It depends so much on the individual station, right? And let's not forget the metadata part of HD Radio. I presume they'll have something similar to "Buy From FM" on the HD Radio, so it would be pretty slick if you heard part of a song on the radio, tagged it, and could download it onto your Zune over the air if you had a Zune Pass. Seems pretty compelling to me!
There are no HD Radio stations in Calgary, so it's a moot point for me, but like I always say, just because there's a feature in there that I won't use doesn't automatically make it a useless feature.