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THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX To eliminate the cumbersome set-top boxes that are required to get HDTV or digital TV, TV manufacturers have partnered with cable companies. By this fall, Comcast and Time Warner Cable (which, like this magazine, is owned by Time Warner) are scheduled to distribute industry-standardized...
The iPod mini, introduced last week, is the size of a business card, comes in five brushed-metal colors, has 4 GB of song storage (enough for 1,000 songs) and works the same way its larger cousin does (a special version of which Apple agreed to make for HP...
There was noticeably less static on WNYC-FM, one of three New York City stations currently broadcasting HD. But I was surprised that the music didn't sound richer in digital than in analog. When I switched to WOR-AM, the difference was more distinct. In analog the host's...
Tom Ray, WOR's director of engineering, explained that the new digital technology is a double-edged sword. Since it transmits audio more accurately, it accentuates both intended sounds, such as a host's voice, and unwanted background noise, like papers being shuffled.
I chalk up HD radio's quirks to the kinks of a new technology. Quality will undoubtedly improve as the industry learns to make digital broadcasts sound their best. With fewer than 100 stations broadcasting HD radio, it doesn't make much sense to buy now. But once more stations...