http://www.rbr.com/radio/26662.html
This article is about the experience of the Engineer of WOR-AM in New York’s attempts in vain to buy an automobile with an integrated HD radio.
What the story assumes you know is that WOR-AM was the pilot site for testing out AM/HD in the real world. Joey Reynolds used to mention that quite frequently as a sign of what an innovative radio station he was working for.
Ford’s Sync entertainment console incorporates Stitcher, Pandora and Sirius/XM. Consumer acceptance works on the principle of critical mass. HDradio has had almost 10 years to convince consumers they need it – the time is up. The NAB proposal to try to force cell phone companies to include and FM radio is significant in that it did NOT mention an HD radio chip.
I would be very surprised if Congress mandated FM chips into cell phones. With HD Radio there are expensive royalties to iBiquity, HD chipsets are power hogs, dropouts and poor reception are common, to name a few. Anyway, analog FM in cell phones is becoming the global standard, since digital radio has been such a failure:
http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com/2010/03/hd-radio-phones.html
Are you suggesting that the U.S. will stop using the CDMA cell phone “standard” and convert our civilian and military communications networks to GSM? America has a long history of ignoring “global standards”
Do those global standard phones permit direct recording of the FM radio signal to the phone’s memory for later archiving in a music library?