Last Auto Account – Audi To Action HD Radio Across 2011 Calendar 
“Vorsprung durch Technik” – that’s German for Advancement Through Technology, a abstraction that Audi espouses in announcement new technologies such as HD Radio as accepted accessories on abounding of its archetypal year 2011 lineup. The German Automaker, who allotment a U.S. address with Volkswagen in Herndon, VA, appear bygone that its ..Last Auto account –
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“Vorsprung durch Technik” – that’s German for Advancement Through Technology, a abstraction that Audi espouses in announcement new technologies such as HD Radio as accepted accessories on abounding of its archetypal year 2011 lineup. The German Automaker, who allotment a U.S. address with Volkswagen in Herndon, VA, appear bygone that its affluence cars with HD Radio will action “the best in agenda advertisement engineering, top-of-the-line AM/FM HD Radio audio systems featuring added agreeable and architecture choices and bright sound.”
iBiquity Agenda Corporation’s Jeff Jury feels the affiliation amid Audi and his close – which is amenable for developing agenda HD Radio technology for AM and FM audio and abstracts broadcasting – is an adroit one. Continuing to angle HD Radio’s ultra-clear accession and adeptness to address digital/text advice (making accessible the manual of song titles, traffic/weather updates, emergency alerts, news, and valet-type services), Jury feels that Audi’s cogent buy-in with HD Radio will advance the technology as one in faddy with the affluence auto market.
Currently, iBiquity’s HD Radio offers added than 1,800 AM and FM radio stations and added than 900 new multicast channels (HD2/HD3) on the FM dial. All channels are subscription-free, clashing digital radio, admitting users ability acquisition the hardly college amount of the added circuitous receiver reflected in the basal band of cars so equipped.
According to Wikipedia, Ford was aboriginal to bazaar with an HD Radio tuner in 2008, and offers HD Radio tuners as factory-installed options in its SYNC-equipped models. Three added German auto manufacturers aswell action factory-installed HD Radio; BMW on about its absolute lineup, BMW’s MINI on the 2009 Cooper and 2009 Cooper S, and Mercedes-Benz on the 2009 R320, 2009 ML320, and 2009 GL320. Scion offers the radio technology with some of its radio options, and Volvo offers it, factory-installed, on eight models from the S40 T5 to the XC90.–Colin Mathews
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“JAGUAR SHELVES HD RADIO INDEFINITELY”
“He showed a factory bulletin advising all dealers that Jaguar has pulled HD from its audio packages indefinitely, citing owner objections and bring-backs of new vehicles with complaints about radio performance.”
http://tinyurl.com/3ktd97
“HD Radio’s Last Stand”
“For example, Volvo sent out a press release earlier this year about making HD Radio standard across their 2009 models. Well I just bought a 2009 Volvo, and guess what? No HD Radio. Furthermore, nobody I’ve spoken to at Volvo Cars North America even knows what HD Radio is, much less why their cars don’t come with it, even though they were supposed to.”
http://tinyurl.com/5j3mez
“DEAD AIR: Radio’s Great Leap Forward stalling in the Valley” December 5, 2007
“Nearly two years after the Valley’s four Clear Channel stations went HD, several high-end car manufacturers have promised to offer HD radios as an option on new models. But while Ford announced in September that it offers the radios as dealer-installed upgrades — as have Mini, Volvo, Jaguar and BMW — local Ford and Lincoln dealers had not heard of HD and said they don’t offer the option.”
http://tinyurl.com/6gwdj4
Let’s see – Jaguar is shelving HD Radio and HD Radio never materialzed in Fords and Volvos.
“BMW HD Radio™ Troubleshooting Guide”
“The HD-Radio™ sound keeps switching between Digital and Analog audio quality. HD-Radio™ Indicator keeps turning on and off… The current BMW HD-Radio™ system does not support multicasting.”
http://tinyurl.com/3j8oc7
And, BMW is having nothing but complaints.
“Are Ford and HD Radio in Sync?”
“The radio industry will, of course, promote Ford for free in exchange for this development as part of the presumably soon-to-expire pledge of airtime to the HD radio effort.”
http://www.hear2.com/2007/09/are-ford-and-hd.html
But, auto manufacturers get free publicity!
23 October 2008 Saat 10:52 pm de demi?ki
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