Sirius Radio...

[Stunseed]

Does anyone out there have a subscription to this? I'm at work looking at it, and it's got alot of great channels I'd enjoy listening to. They sell a car & home kit for $150, and it's 12.95/mo for the service. Seven sports stations, eight rap/r&b/urban, even four classical channels, but the jewel of it, is it comes with two comedy stations, which I truly love listening to.

Has anyone heard good/bad about it?

[Keller]

All I know is that my Sirius stock is gonna make me rich. R-I-C-H. I bought that shit when they got NFL and Stern. Once Stern makes the official switch and all of NYC buys in, then it will take off. I figure only one of the satellite radios will truly succeed. Kinda like Microsoft. ;)

[Sean]

I got iritated with satellite radio because a lot of the stuff I want to listen to you have to pay extra beyond the base subscription. Like O&A or NFL or Baseball these are all adds on at like $2 a clip beyond base. It adds up.

[Stunseed]

All the ones I like are in normal subscription package, and while I'd love to get an NFL package, the only ones I don't get to listen to are Jag home games, and the Sunday night game.

I just made a guest pass and listening to Hip-Hop Nation, it sounds promising.

thx to howard stern for making my stock hit 8$ after buying it for like 1.80/share

<3 sirius for that

seriously, though.. go with sirius over XM.. I think the content it offers is better, and eventually, I will subscribe to it, too...

edited so I spelled things properly.. and well.. didn't sound like I was bragging

[Edited on 1-14-2005 by lucene]

[Edited on 1-14-2005 by lucene]

[ThisOtherKingdom]

I'm having a hard time deciding between XM and Sirius. XM has MLB but Sirius has NFL. I think I'm leaning towards XM, because I can always get NFL Sunday Ticket. Football is more fun to watch than listen to, anyway.

[Stealth]

I had Sirius before I left for Iraq and loved it. Once I get set up over here I am going to reactivate my account since you can listen to it streaming over the net. I loved the comedy channel btw.


Stealth

[Stunseed]

Hell yes! I want it so bad now, Raw Dog has Jim Breuer for 2 hours every day. So many good comedians, so little time.

[Nakiro]

I have a subscription and it works well in Ohio but bugs out a lot in Kentucky.

Go figure.

When I get service though it is quite nice.

[Stealth]

I did find that if you live in heavily wooded areas with overhanging trees or if you live in a city without the terrestrial repeaters it blocks the signal. Terrestrial repeaters just rebroadcast the satellite signal in urban areas to get around the line of sight issue with satellites. I loved it on the road though.


Stealth

[Edaarin]

I've had XM for just about a year now and loving it.

[Electrawn]

Does anyone out there have a subscription to this? I'm at work looking at it, and it's got alot of great channels I'd enjoy listening to. They sell a car & home kit for $150, and it's 12.95/mo for the service. Seven sports stations, eight rap/r&b/urban, even four classical channels, but the jewel of it, is it comes with two comedy stations, which I truly love listening to.

Has anyone heard good/bad about it?


It fails the Radio Shack test. It must be bad. (sold at Radio Shack)

Therefore...if you have to pick....XM.

Real easy to look at Radio Shack's capacity for picking duds:

DirectTV dropped them, Dish Network stepped up. (DirectTV > *)

Sprint/SprintPCS. Self explanitory.

RCA Products...

Statistical Fluke...Verizon...but if you keep throwin darts at a dartboard, statistics say eventually you will hit bullseye.

Next....



thx to howard stern for making my stock hit 8$ after buying it for like 1.80/share

<3 sirius for that

seriously, though.. go with sirius over XM.. I think the content it offers is better, and eventually, I will subscribe to it, too...


Short Sell that shit!

1. The contract with Stern alone requires them to pay him 100 Million...basically increase their current subscriber base by 3-4x to just pay THAT contract! Pretty ambitious and foolhardy.

2. 4G. This ones tougher but requires real forward thinking. Cell Phone networks are in the process of the even bigger rollouts of high speed IP technology. With WiMax and CLEC and various other options entering the broadband over the air market...in 1.5 to 2 years anyone, anywhere will be able to have T1+ speeds. This would be a perfect market for speciallized devices to accept IP streams. This would also make the hardware investments made by XM and Sirius true dogs compared to any company that could enter the space with content streams. The same thing will happen to video but further down the line.

-Electrawn

[Edited on 1-16-2005 by Electrawn]