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Re:Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying go... by TylerE on Friday December 15, 2017 @03:35PM (#15934849)
I don't even think it sounds very good, at least the US HD Radio implementation. Most channels have dialed the bitrate way down so they can jam in subchannels of useless stuff like weather and the audio sounds horrible, worse than analog FM.
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Re:Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying go... by FireBeyond on Friday December 15, 2017 @05:54PM (#15935935)
Oh yes. I'm this close to canceling my Sirius subscription because some of the music channels are 32kbps or even 16kbps.
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