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iBiquitous
Says in the Newsday article that broadcasters originally supported the Eureka 147 format for broadcasts. Wrong! The development of iBiquity's IBOC format was done because legacy broadcasters didn't want to lose the equity they'd built up over the years in their current dial positions, and they didn't want to open the possibility for new competition. So they insisted on creating a system that would piggyback on their existing signals. And since the dials are full (and IBOC is only going to make them more full; you can't add this much information to a signal without spilling onto adjacent channels), there's no room for new competition. Voila! They get to have their cake and eat it too! If I lived closer to Canada, I would probably have already bought one of their Eureka 147-based digital radios. It's interesting that this is the first instance I can recall where Canada selected a broadcasting technology that the US had ruled out. There are responses to this message:
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