Comments on: GM, Toyota upset over proposed Sirius, XM, HD Radio requirements http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/07/26/gm-toyota-upset-over-proposed-sirius-xm-hd-radio-requirements/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: paul vincent zecchino http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/07/26/gm-toyota-upset-over-proposed-sirius-xm-hd-radio-requirements/comment-page-1/#comment-112352 paul vincent zecchino Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:45:06 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/07/27/gm-toyota-upset-over-proposed-sirius-xm-hd-radio-requirements/#comment-112352 Right. The HD gang wants a free ride. HD isn't about free market competition. HD noise jams competing broadcasters to ruin and makes listeners discard billions of fine analog radios and buy costly HD stooge radios. Nice crowd, eh? The HD gang demands undue privilege from FCC in form of mandates that SatRad, auto, and others include HD in their products. Why can't HD compete on the level? Without that free ride, TeamBLOC would have to face the reality that listeners view HD as a costly 'carny shill' design to demolish competitors, limit listener choice for sole benefit of a few crony broadcast chains. The free market worked. It rejected HD. Why the relentless frenzied efforts to circumvent it? Paul Vincent Zecchino Manasota Key, Florida 27 July, 2008 Right. The HD gang wants a free ride. HD isn’t about free market competition. HD noise jams competing broadcasters to ruin and makes listeners discard billions of fine analog radios and buy costly HD stooge radios. Nice crowd, eh?

The HD gang demands undue privilege from FCC in form of mandates that SatRad, auto, and others include HD in their products.

Why can’t HD compete on the level?

Without that free ride, TeamBLOC would have to face the reality that listeners view HD as a costly ‘carny shill’ design to demolish competitors, limit listener choice for sole benefit of a few crony broadcast chains.

The free market worked. It rejected HD. Why the relentless frenzied efforts to circumvent it?

Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
27 July, 2008

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