Digital HD Radio Receiver for BMW Automotive Products

BMW offers the digital HD Radio receiver as an option across its 2007 automotive product line. Digital HD Radio technology provide listeners with enhanced digital audio quality and on-screen text information. This technology allows FM stations to broadcast multiple channels of digital programming simultaneously on a single frequency.

The number of HD Radio stations is expected to exceed 3,000 within the next few years. Currently,  more than a thousand radio stations across US broadcasting with HD Radio technology, more than 500 FM stations are offering a second (HD2) and, in many cases, a third (HD3) multicast channel. For example, WAMU in Washington, DC, offers three channels: 88.5-1, a simulcast of its news/talk analog channel.

The HD Radio option will have a Suggested Retail Price of $500.

Source: BMW Group In America