John Anderson reports for DIYMedia.net only about 15 percent of radio stations have gone HD, and many of them switched to HD, and then abandoned the format. Less than half of all new cars in America can receive HD radio, and there are virtually no HD radio receivers out of automobiles. In an ideal world, HD radio could be useful -- stations can broadcast two or three different signals on one channel, and the metadata of song titles and program information is also transmitted. But, long ago, the U.S. choose one bad way to do HD, while the rest of the world picked a better option. What's worse, because so few stations broadcast high definition radio signals, those that do transmit a hybrid digital signal, combining analog and HD signal. The results are not pretty. Many cars that could receive HD radio instead have problems with the hybrid signals, and "the dealer fix is to lock the car HD Radios into ‘analog only’ mode to resolve it, and that’s bad for broadcasters,” according to David Day, president of audio-conditioner Orban Labs. Instead, radio listeners are more likely to soon be able to get a new "European-developed system that allows compatible receivers to switch between a station’s over-the-air signal and its internet-stream depending on the quality of reception."