“Sirius, XM, and HD: Consumer interest reality check”

“While interest in satellite radio is diminishing, interest in HD shows no signs of a pulse.”

hear2.com/2007/02/sirius_xm_and_h.html

"Is Pay-for-Play HD Content on Horizon?"

rwonline.com/pages/s.0049/t.4028.html

"HD Radio Effort Undermined by Weak Tuners in Expensive Radios"

mp3newswire.net/stories/7002/hd-radio2.html

“HD Radio on the Offense”

“But after an investigation of HD Radio units, the stations playing HD, and the company that owns the technology; and some interviews with the wonks in DC, it looks like HD Radio is a high-level corporate scam, a huge carny shill.”

eastbayexpress.com/2007-03-07/music/hd-radio-on-the-offense

"The FCC Tunes Into HD Radio--And May Turn Off Distant AM"

blog.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2007/03/the_fcc_greenlights_hd_radio_n.html

“RW Opinion: Rethinking AM’s future”

“Making AM-HD work well as a long-term investment is seen as an expensive and risky challenge for most stations and their owners. There is the significant downside of potential new interference to some of their own AM analog listeners as well as listeners of adjacent-channel stations.”

rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.557.html

Even with external dipole and loop antennas table-top HD radios have problematic reception - HD Radio's reception in moving vehicles, and with ignition noise, is even more problematic.