Low-Cost Transportable for Car and Home Has Shipped to Best Buy Stores
CYPRESS, Calif., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- JVC Mobile Entertainment
announced today that it is offering the industry's first plug-and-play HD
Radio receiver. The new transportable for car and home, KT-HDP1, is
currently shipping to Best Buy stores across the country.
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"It is with great enthusiasm that we launch this new HD Radio product
that is both low priced and easy for consumers to install in their cars and
at home," said JVC Mobile Entertainment, Chad Vogelsong, General Manager,
Marketing. "Following the overwhelming sales of our HD Radio head unit, the
KD-HDR1, this transportable is the first of several new JVC HD Radio
products that will be coming to market over the next 18 months."
An AM/FM/HD Radio multicast tuner, the KT-HDP1 adapts to most vehicles
and has three installation options: a do-it-yourself car install kit that
does not require removing the radio; a simple home kit; and, a professional
car kit that does require removing existing radios. HD Radio data is
showcased on a full dot matrix LCD display. Other features include white
backlight and blue key illumination, 5-way navigation keys, 18FM and 6 AM
preset channels HD Radio station scan and seek and 3.5 mini plug audio out.
Suggested retail price is $129 for the tuner itself plus $49 for the home
and do-it-yourself car kits or $39 for the provision car installation kit.
About HD Radio Broadcasting
HD Radio(TM) broadcasting is crystal-clear, subscription-free digital
AM and FM radio. It's your local radio stations, gone digital. More than
1,500 stations across the country are now broadcasting with HD Radio
technology, offering over 700 new HD2 Multicasting channels to their local
communities with unique new content devoted to everything from classic to
new country, blues to the BBC, tropical to eclectic chill-out. HD Radio
receivers offer valuable information across their display screens, such as
song title, artist, traffic, weather, news, school closings and other
emergency alerts. HD Radio broadcasting offers vastly superior sound: AM
sounds like FM stereo; FM is CD- like quality. With an HD Radio receiver,
all of this new programming and more is free, no monthly subscription fees.
For more information about HD Radio stations, Please visit
http://www.hdradio.com.
About JVC Mobile Entertainment
JVC Mobile Entertainment is a part of JVC Mobile Company of America, a
division of JVC Americas Corp. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Victor
Company of Japan, Limited. JVC is a leading developer and manufacturer of
sophisticated mobile, audio and video products that use superior
technologies to deliver high quality sound and images. For more
information, please visit http://www.mobile.jvc.com.
HD Radio(TM) and the HD Radio logos are proprietary trademarks of
iBiquity Digital Corp. Other product and company names may be trademarks of
their respective companies
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