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khoney
01-20-2009, 10:55 PM
Does anyone know if they are? I read somewhere else about a guy who took his stock radio apart, and one of the ICs was an RDS demodulator. There's no RDS logo on the radio, so I'm wondering if they truly are, or if RDS protocol is being used in a hard-wired fashion. It they truly are over-the-air RDS compatible, I have some ideas I'd like to try out...

icspots
01-21-2009, 03:17 PM
I know they are on EU models...... I never figured out why they would have it available there, but not here.

AWmustang
01-22-2009, 02:10 PM
Seems silly that they wouldn't be. But I don't think any of the Mazda radios are. (In the US at least).

Mike240SX
01-23-2009, 09:57 AM
Nope, they aren't. Not even CD-Text compatible.

eg6motion
01-23-2009, 10:08 AM
yeah, would be a cool feature to have. My 08 Lancer had it and it was very nice.

Rotus8
01-23-2009, 12:23 PM
Nope, they aren't. Not even CD-Text compatible.
But they do display Sirius text. Werd.