In article , Ian Jackson
wrote:
In message , Jim Lesurf
writes
In article , Eiron
wrote:
On 19/10/2010 10:09, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In , Jim
wrote:
Not sure if I am previous in mentioning this. But IIUC the BBC are
now announcing that they plan to make the XHQ 320kb/s stream
permanently available as 'HD Radio' for Radio 3 listeners to the
iPlayer.


In this context, what does 'HD' stand for?

I think the BBC are going to call the new 320k stream(s) "HD Radio" to
distinguish them from the established 192k/128k AAC streams. (Which I think
will continue.) Presumably to avoid confusing non-'technical' listeners
with numbers like "320kb/sec". :-)

So just a name people can use. It was sometimes called 'XHQ' or 'XHX' [1]
during the tests. But I suppose 'HD Radio' makes more sense as a way of
describing this in the context of HD TV also being tested and rolled out.

Reminds me of seeing a Peanuts cartoon from decades ago that referred to a
"HiFi skip(ping) rope" to lampoon the way 'HiFi' was picked up as a buzz
phrase when HiFi started to become known to people. ...and a few weeks ago
I saw an advert for a carpet that was said to be an 'HD carpet' to try and
tell us the pattern was very detailed. ;-

Slainte,

Jim

[1] eXtra High Quality or eXtra High-quality eXperiment, I presume.

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