Santa Clara-Based Intel Capital Invests in iBiquity Digital

Santa Clara, Calif. -- IBiquity Digital, a Maryland-based developer of technology
that lets radio stations broadcast a digital signal alongside their analog signals,
said on Monday that Santa Clara-based Intel Capital, the investment arm of chip-
making giant Intel, has made an undisclosed investment in the company. Robert
Struble, the president and CEO of iBiquity, said that the relationship will help his
company to "accelerate the commercialization" of its HD Radio technology,
"particularly in the area of portable HD Radio devices." Struble said that iBiquity
plans to eventually move into new portable digital media devices, including
mobile phones and digital media players. The technology is designed to transmit
CD-quality sound, while virtually eliminating the static and hiss typically
associated with analog radio. It also gives stations the ability to roll out new
services, such as scrolling text onto receiver display screens; delivering real-time
traffic updates to vehicles and broadcasting up to eight digital channels of
programming over a single frequency.
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What do they say about best laid plans? Wasn't HD Radio, according to reotrps, an cronyistic sub rosa effort to jam public airwaves, so as to deny American citizens any ability to listen to analog AM&FM stations of their choosing, make them buy unreliable, quirky, costly, HD stooge radios' and thin the herd of unncecessary AM radio stations'? Wasn't that how some, according to reotrps, privately described the purpose of HD Radio? Wasn't this cabal so overconfident in its scheme and so callously dismissive of the American citizens it is obliged to serve, and as well the existing broadcasters who wished to remain analog, that it actually admitted to knowing that HD interferes with other stations, gloating that jamming would Thin the herd of unnecessary radio stations ? Thin the herd of unnecessary stations? Which? Those you count upon for breaking news, hurricane reotrps and other vital information? Those unnecessary stations'? Who are these insider Elite cronies to make your choices for you? Isn't high-hat arrogance always the undoing of greedy bullies? American citizens in recent months have successfully expressed their disapointment with arrogant bullies, haven't they? Did callous dismissiveness and high-handed glib sloganeering ever play well in Peoria, or anywhere else in America? But there's more, isn't there? According to reotrps, when industry leaders known for their integrity dared to remark the obvious about HD's many apparent deliberate flaws, let alone its questionable bottomless funding, weren't they told in no uncertain terms to remain silent, on threat that CBS and the rest of the radio industry wants HD and will sue anyone who dares question it, to their ruin'? What good product is sold by means of obfuscations, fanciful tales, and threats? What decent salespersons would resort to those tactics to sell a worthy innovation? In recent months, the American citizens have awakened to those who resort to these tactics to promote their questionable schemes, haven't they? That's long been the problem for those who seek to loot the public trust, isn't it? Once their design is pointed out, their gaseous threats deflate like a rotten souffle as the public quickly and forever abandons them, having realized they've no clothes, don't they? Wasn't the HD Radio gang's plan for we, the American citizens, to awaken one morning to hear nothing but screaming digital noise on our radios? Weren't they to then tell us it was time to buy HD stooge' radios which shortly would become pay-to-listen radios?, according to reotrps or hear nothing but screaming digital trash all over the formerly pristine public airwaves? Haven't many broadcasters, tired of the threats from this peculiar little gang, now come forward to publicly express their many concerns about the HD Radio scheme, while at the same time turning off their HD transmiters in the name of respecting the American citizens' right to listen to what they want when they want, rather that whatever the HD gang deems fit for them to hear? If this product is so good, why was it sold by means of fanciful boasts, obfuscations, denials, and litigious threats? If it were any good, wouldn't it have sold itself long ago? Wasn't 2006 supposedly the Big Year of the HD Rollout? Or was it 2004? When you think of how quickly iPods and their related devices have sold to delighted customers around the world, as compared with this endless promotion of a serially-superseded, long obsolete, troublesome product promoted by means of questionable tactics, the truth becomes yet more manifest, doesn't it?Paul Vincent ZecchinoManasota Key, Florida20 September, 2010