That's why you have it on the radio, you can do something else at the same time.

 

Haha! I'm sure that they have it now though. I don't remember.



Sirius is over XM anyday. I love sat, I don't even download music anymore, I just play sirius on the computer, or on the boombox I got for the reciever for x-mas.

 

like load the gun

 

This was a work freebee that its in my work van so I am not out anything, was just less than impressed after all the hype.. I think for my own vehicles I will try the sirius. I am a talk radio junkie, more so than music..

 

last I checked XM outsold sirius by a long shot, is it still like that?

 

XM Had a headstart, Surius is gaining quickly. Imagine XM is the T04E and Sirius is the T-78 spooling up.



The best suprise from Sirius for me was an old favorite Bubba the Love Sponge. I used to live outside of Tampa and listen to him in the early 90's and he is really funny. Now he has a sidekick named Ned and old redneck that likes to make prank phone calls that will make your sides split.



Plus the station layout of Sirius is the best, no Fred, Ethel and Lucy just good stations broken down with some logic.



Faction is awesome, along with Octane, I also like Country and R&B so I have a little of everything I need and the stations really cater to me and my wacky taste.

 

For those of us "mature" enough to remember the dawn of cable TV, the premise was that if you paid for the channels instead of receiving free broadcast channels, you would get commercial-free service. We all know how that ended up. Satellite radio will go down the same road.

 

you mean toilet

 

Since satelite radio is digital, what about local radio in digital? There was a serious problem with IBOC right from the beginning because it caused too much interference with adjacent stations and the quality was garbage (like 5kHz and sounds like a poor quality mp3 = sucky sucky).



I recently learned about CAMD (Compatible AM Digital) which claims FM-like sound quality on AM without any interference to other stations and is backwards-compatible with 'classic' AM receivers because it mixes digital with analog seamlessly (the digital part is simply ignored by standard receivers). Digital = higher audio frequencies up to 15kHz with stereo capability; analog = standard AM audio quality up to 8kHz.



The digital portion of the signal only carries the higher audio frequencies and is small and clean enough to prevent interference with adjacent stations. The analog portion sounds better than what most modern AM recievers are capable of reproducing. Ironicly most recievers over 20 years old sound better than the newer cheap-component consumer-grade AM recivers available today.



lol that's what an afternoon spent catching up on 20 years of AM radio history will do for you.

 

aka HD Radio? that stuff is available right now.



FM quality AM and CD quality FM with more stations "between the stations" i dont have it, cant say how it works but it receives special stations other then the regulars that a regular radio cant pick up.



edit: oh yea, and no subscription fee, just gotta buy a headunit which works with hd radio.



kevin.