iBiquity could score a big win if Canada opens its airwaves to in-band, on-channel (IBOC) digital radio: The Canadian spectrum regulator, the Radio, Television, and Telecommunications Commission, will allow broadcasts in HD Radio format over Canadian airwaves if another agency, the Department of Industry, also approves of the format. This would be an enormous benefit to HD Radio equipment makers, which would require relatively little tweaking–beyond, perhaps, ensuring bilingual compatibility–of receivers already for sale or designed for the US market. CBC has been testing IBOC. [snip]
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HD Radio/IBOC causes adjacent-channel interference and has only 60% the coverage of analog. The HD channels are only low-bitrate streams of the same repetitive material. HD radios require dipole and loop antennas, and reception is still problematic. Consumers are not interested in this joke:
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