Slog - Comments on SXSW Observations, Day 2 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/sxsw_observatio_1 --Hit a panel on podcasting featuring Nic Harcourt and other white guys with well-modulated voices. It is, undoubtedly, The Future—as is HD Radio. This is the first time I've heard the latter term. I am officially Out Of Touch. Another first encounter: Rich Dean of KUT used the term "mindshare.ā€¯ That sounds ominously Orwellian to me. --Most trite utterance heard in a men's room (after a long, loud, obscene grunt, a guy steps to a urinal and says to the dude pissing next to him), "Sometimes you gotta unload the clip.ā€¯ --Seattle's Velella Velella played a fruity, friction-y set of... Copyright 2007 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:27:43 -0800 Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:39:56 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Glenn Fleishman HD Radio is the best thing you've never heard because the receivers have enormously lagged broadcasters. Which is just weird. I read years ago that 6,000 television sets had been sold in Seattle before the first TV stations were broadcasting, and then only for a few hours a day.

HD Radio is the flip side. Radio stations are converting like mad. There are something like 700 stations (with a total of 1,300 expected this year) broadcasting in the digital format, with FM predominant. The FCC is concerned about AM interference so HD AM stations may only broadcast during daylight hours.

The Boston Acoustics $299 receiver is the only one that's affordable on the market, and only one of two home receivers shipping. That'll change by summer.

KUOW has receivers and broadcasts three HD channels: HD1 is the digital version of their analog broadcast; HD2 is alternative programming, streamed as KUOW2 online; HD3 is BBC Radio 24 hours a day at a low quality.

]]> Glenn Fleishman http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/sxsw_observatio_1#c038436 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/sxsw_observatio_1#c038436 Arts Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:38:13 -0800 Comment by SEAN NELSON, EMERITUS HD=Harvey Danger.

]]> SEAN NELSON, EMERITUS http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/sxsw_observatio_1#c038568 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/sxsw_observatio_1#c038568 Arts Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:54:07 -0800 Comment by Rich Dean I said "mindshare" out loud? Jebus, I'm sorry. Bad buzzword :-(

HD Radio is a technology still years away from being fully baked. It's a technology owned by one company -- as opposed to AM, FM, and HDTV -- and bugs are worked out s-l-o-w-l-y. Radio are grossy overpriced. My advice: listen online until the radios come down in price by 90%.

]]> Rich Dean http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/sxsw_observatio_1#c044120 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/sxsw_observatio_1#c044120 Arts Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:39:56 -0800