Rumor: Apple considering HD radio in future devices

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What I would really like is for Apple to add a satellite radio (XM/Sirius) receiver into their iPods and iPhones. There is an app you can download to your iPod touch or iPhone, but it only has about 2/3rd of the channels and can only be used where you are in range of WiFi.

I suspect that this could dramatically increase XM/Sirius subscriptions, and Apple could easily take a good cut of the subscription fees, with their device being responsible for the increase in subscriptions.
This would allow one to get all sort of cable news channels, politics, talk and analysis, along with plenty of custom radio stations wherever one was, all on one portable device, (not adding separate satellite radio device).

I thought the iPod could the radio.

I would really like an fm tuner. The gym I go to has big screen tvs with the audio streamed to fm stations, and I'd like to listen to the news or whatever is playing while I workout.

Not sure how much I would use this, as Pandora and podcasts are my main form of audio listening, but I'm always a fan of options. Besides, if I lose service or something and could still get this, why not?

I'd like this as a feature for one reason: to listen to the news. There are no FM news stations in NYC, and I don't think that there are any modern devices with built-in am tuners. However 1010 WINS has a HD station. Every so often when I'm out, there's a need to listen to the news (weather, train problems, etc), so I would welcome this.

Honestly, im quite surprised that HD radio is still mentioned i remember around 2006 always hearing ads about HD radio when it just came out but fast forward to 2010-and it seems like it either failed or ipods and the internet beat them. Good concept but it was too late, i would actually want Apple to unlock the FM chip in the ipod touch and iphones rather than have HD radio, come on the nano has it and the phone does not, thats a disgrace.

I recently upgraded my car stereo to one with iPod and Bluetooth connectivity, and HD Radio came along for the ride. It's OK but it's nothing special. The improvement in audio quality for FM stations is very subtle. The digital subchannels are somewhat interesting, but many of them don't have much bandwidth allocated to them and end up sounding like early 90's-era streaming audio. The digital signal seems pretty flaky and will cut out going under overpasses, or if the weather is bad, or if there are too many tall buildings around, and disappears entirely long before you're out of analog reception range. It can be very irritating in borderline conditions, where the receiver repeatedly switches back and forth between analog and digital. Mostly, it seems like an effective technology for replacing easily-ignorable analog noise and static with jarring and disconcerting digital artifacts.

too late - i'm already at 100% internet based radio for my needs, not restricted to any geographical location. And these are terrestrial stations i listen to.

->Wunderradio

Yes, all well and good, but it needs DAB consideration. The rest of the world outside the USA uses DAB not IBOC HD Radio, which does the tagging as well. I have a ZuneHD which already does the HD digital, but only in America, it's FM only for the rest of the world and therefore useless outside of the country.