Ibiquity Fears Open Access Will Not Help Adoption Of HD Radio
In a meeting held with FCC commissioner Tate, Ibiquity outlined fears that the open access condition proposed in the merger between Sirius and XM would not ensure that HD radio chipsets get installed into receivers capable of receiving SDARS signals.
It is ironic that open access is heralded as a concept that is pro consumer, and a concept that gives consumers a better chance of getting what they want at a reasonable price. How then can something such as open access leave HD radio behind?
Perhaps HD radio is seeing what Pioneer sees. Pioneer has made staunch statements against a requirement to being forced to include HD into SDARS receivers. We noted the push back by Pioneer in or article “Pioneer Says No Thanks To HD Radio”
I have said it before, and I will say it again. HD Radio has a responsibility to market itself. They should not be out looking for business model hand-outs. They should not be trying to circumvent negotiations with OEM’s by getting into car dashboards on the backs of the negotiations that Sirius and XM have made, and by extension, on the backs of shareholders in the SDARS companies. Shareholders in Sirius and XM have suffered years of no profits to get the concept of SDARS to the point where it is now. The Ibiquity proposal, should it be accepted would allow HD Radio to waltz into existence without having to blaze a trail in the manner that Sirius and XM have.
The open access standard would take the manufacturing requirement away from Sirius and XM. It would allow any manufacturer to develop any type of radio they wanted. If U.S. electronics had a desire to make an HD radio that also received SDARS, they could do so.
This appears to be yet another attempt to grab the proverbial brass ring on the efforts of others, and an attempt to avoid negotiations with the Pioneers and U.S. Electronics of the world. It is time that Ibiquity stepped up to the plate themselves. It is time that they market their services. It is time that they tried to run their own business rather than trying to piggyback on the business of others.
Getting a service up and running is hard, but you need to put forth a bit of your own effort.
Position – Long Sirius, XM.
I couldn’t agree more – iBiquity maggots
IBiquity has been living on handouts since its inception. They have lied about sales figures, twisted the hands of broadcasters, they’re in bed with the FCC, lied about audio quality, lied about low power HD chipsets, and the list goes on and on. It’s time investors cut their loses and move on. Let’s hope it’s sooner rather than later because the scam has gone on long enough.
Tyler, you are correct once again. I have said it myself many times, that the reason SIRI/XMSR are in dept and has not shown a profit is because of the cost to subsidize the chip sets. While many people want to blame content, it is the subsidy they pay that by far out cost content. GTP said themselves that they believe that there are at least 18 million satellite radios that are out there and are not being used 18 million X at least 100 = 1.8 billion for SIRI/XMSR for radios they have not gotten anything yet for. I can’t think anyone is that dumb that they would force another company to foot that big of a bill for a competitor. I have said it many times that SIRI/XMSR are paying ahead for their growth, and that is what Ibiquity should have to do.
IBiquity has been living on handouts since its inception. They have
lied about sales figures, twisted the hands of broadcasters, they’re
in bed with the FCC, lied about audio quality, lied about low power HD
chipsets, and the list goes on and on. It’s time investors cut their
loses and move on. Let’s hope it’s sooner rather than later because
the scam has gone on long enough.
The HD scammers know that they have a junk technology on their hands and there is no chance of it succeeding unless it is forced upon consumers in some way or other, they are desperate. You are watching a lead balloon sink into the land from which it never took off.
Bob Young
Millbury, MA