The option to have HD Radio is now available on the 6 series for $500. There is no mention in the press release if the E60 will see this option.


BMW 6 SERIES DRIVERS TO BE AMONG THE FIRST TO EXPERIENCE
HD RADIO? TECHNOLOGYOption is Being Offered on 2006 Model Year 6 Series

Woodcliff Lake, NJ ? November 4, 2005?In August 2005, BMW announced an industry first with the application of HD Radio? technology as an option in its 2006 Model Year 7 Series. BMW is now making this innovative technology optionally available on 2006 6 Series vehicles as well, beginning with October 2005 production.

This digital technology, developed by iBiquity Digital Corporation, provides one of the most significant advances in radio broadcasting history. This technology offers radio broadcasters and listeners enhanced digital audio quality and clear, noise-free reception. Many AM and FM stations across the country have started employing the HD Radio? technology to broadcast both in analog and digital formats.

The benefits of the HD Radio? broadcast include:
? Enhanced sound quality on digital AM stations.
? CD-like sound quality on digital FM stations.
? Clear reception with no static noise, hisses or pops.
? Possibility to receive streamed data, including artist and song information, from those radio stations that provide such content within their digital broadcast.

Nearly 500 radio stations are already using this new broadcast technology in the US, and many more are expected to join in. A list of radio stations can be found at the following link: http://www.ibiquity.com/hdradio/hdradio_hdstations.htm
The HD Radio? Option marks another historic first for BMW. The 7 and 6 Series are the first production cars in the world to offer this leading edge technology, adding to the many technological and design innovations BMW has pioneered so far in the US and worldwide.

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

 

I assume this is HD Radio *or* Sirius but not both? Any info on BMW web site?

 

SIRIUS and HD co-exist. The HD radio is part of a receiver/transmission system that improves the AM or FM reception of the participating stations. Otherwise all else is the same including normal AM and FM for non-participating stations, unless that is, the receiver capable of this HD is degraded in sensitivity for normal AM/FM transmissions, which not supposed to happen.

 

HD RADIO? What's that?
We have DAB (digital audio broadcast) Is this the same?

 

Follow the link in the first post.

 

My salesman offered me this but i did not want it at that time
boy do i regret it now!! :thumbsdown:
wonder if they still can put it in..

 

I'd be very interested in a real world review of standard radio in the e60 vs. the HD Radio, particularly with the Logic 7 sound.