HD Radio certainly appears to be dying. It looks like it has been replaced by Internet Radio Tuners.
Is HD Radio on its last leg?
I was just shopping for my 5th HD tuner, and it looks like both the excellent Sony XDR-F1HD as well as the Sangean HDT-1 and HDT-1X are no longer in production!
In fact, for home audio, it looks like there is only one standalone HD tuner still being made: the massively expensive Day-Sequerra M4 series.
This is too bad, since it looks like virtually all manufacturers have dropped HD in favor of some combination of Internet and/or SiriusXM.
I wonder how long it will be before my local NPR affiliate, the only source of jazz in my small market, stops broadcasting on its .2 channel.
In fact, for home audio, it looks like there is only one standalone HD tuner still being made: the massively expensive Day-Sequerra M4 series.
This is too bad, since it looks like virtually all manufacturers have dropped HD in favor of some combination of Internet and/or SiriusXM.
I wonder how long it will be before my local NPR affiliate, the only source of jazz in my small market, stops broadcasting on its .2 channel.
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