Sirius, XM

Hardtail67
Hardtail67 Posts: 52
edited November 2008 in Music & Movies
Any satellite listeners out there? What do you think of the merger?

I'm a Sirius subscriber and I lost my favorite channels; The Vault and Buzzsaw. I'm really pissed. The replacements from XM, specificly Deep Tracks..... suck.:mad:
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited November 2008
    Life goes on. Just be glad they even still exist as an entity...and the long term prospects of that are questionable.
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited November 2008
    At $0.15 A SHARE THE END IS NEAR.
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited November 2008
    I'm ready to cancel my two XM radios; they eliminated the two channels that my wife listened to. I called to cancel, but they gave me two complimentary months to wait for them to evaluate the lineup; it seems that there's a lot of people complaining from both sides.
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  • mutelight
    mutelight Posts: 1,054
    edited November 2008
    I have a Sirius subscription and all I ever really listen to is Howard 100 and 101 and I have XM with my DirecTV service which I think I have listened to twice.
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  • Chameleon2
    Chameleon2 Posts: 112
    edited November 2008
    So far, I don't like it.

    Too much talk now on the music channels I listen to (where there used to be none).
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited November 2008
    Chameleon2 wrote: »
    Too much talk now on the music channels I listen to (where there used to be none).

    Right; that too.
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  • avelanchefan
    avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
    edited November 2008
    Yeah they threw out Hard Attack (from serious) and replaced it with the XM channel, and I swear the DJ talked for a long time. No commercial, but I was thinking to myself...if I wanted to listen to a DJ I would turn on the radio.
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  • steveducie
    steveducie Posts: 192
    edited November 2008
    i listen to mostly Howard but when i tune into a music channel , i wanna hear music not some DJ in training.
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  • hockeyboy
    hockeyboy Posts: 1,428
    edited November 2008
    I still mostly listen to Octane but even that has changed. Definitely Hits 1 is for the worse. I remember buying SIRI stock at 1.05 and selling it at 8 bucks. I never looked back but hope they survive because I love having NFL network in the car.
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  • Conradicles
    Conradicles Posts: 6,143
    edited November 2008
    The sound quality is pathetic on most stations.
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  • Pepi28
    Pepi28 Posts: 248
    edited November 2008
    Same here with my favorite sirius channel's being screwed up or gone all together. Plus like you all are saying, I'm paying to hear music not some jackass dj or anyone for that matter talking.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited November 2008
    I canceled my service several months ago, I don't miss it at all.
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  • Igo
    Igo Posts: 411
    edited November 2008
    bikezappa wrote: »
    At $0.15 A SHARE THE END IS NEAR.
    Probably because the audio quality is almost intolerable to listen to.
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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
    edited November 2008
    Wow.

    I still like my Sirius. It's much better than FM, for sure. I get good reception and decent quality on the stations that matter most. I need to check out the new lineup, though.

    Radio will go the same way TV did -- from free to pay, and you'll pay a premium for commercial free radio. Some of the Sirius channels already have commercials. WTF?
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  • Igo
    Igo Posts: 411
    edited November 2008
    Early B. wrote: »
    Wow.

    I still like my Sirius. It's much better than FM, for sure. I get good reception and decent quality on the stations that matter most. I need to check out the new lineup, though.

    Radio will go the same way TV did -- from free to pay, and you'll pay a premium for commercial free radio. Some of the Sirius channels already have commercials. WTF?
    Because Sirious and XM are restricted to "X" amount of bandwidth, the losey compression is an absolute butchery of the audio signal. Let's check the math. Does anyone here know the bit rate delivery of a cd? the bitrate delivery of a lowly MP3? and the bitrate delivery of the average Sirious broadcast?
    I have a pretty complex audio system in my car and I have satelite radio but most broadcast sound as if they are coming out of a tin can. Last April I paid for 1 year. Next April my sirious radio will be religated to dust collecting under the seat. It's a shame. These guys could double up or triple up on genre (and in that, half or 1/3 the compression and there would be more variety on each channel and the audio signal would be much more acceptable.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited November 2008
    Early B. wrote: »
    Radio will go the same way TV did -- from free to pay

    Really? Terrestrial radio (ie, free radio) is surviving (not doing great, but surviving) while XM/Sirius is tanking and on the verge of bankruptcy. The pay radio model has essentially failed, but you somehow feel it's the wave of the future?
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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
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    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Really? Terrestrial radio (ie, free radio) is surviving (not doing great, but surviving) while XM/Sirius is tanking and on the verge of bankruptcy. The pay radio model has essentially failed, but you somehow feel it's the wave of the future?

    Watch and learn, my son, watch and learn. Few things in life are FREE.

    Drinking water used to be free, too. If someone told me 20 years ago that bottled water would be the "wave of the future," and various brands would be nestled alongside Coca-Cola in the same vending machine for the same price, I would have thought they were nuts. Same holds true for television. How many of your friends watch "free TV?" Hell, this generation has probably never heard the term, "rabbit ears."

    If Sirius/XM fails, trust me, someone will come along with the right business model to make it work, and there will be plenty of customers willing to pay for it.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited November 2008
    Fair enough. Technically radio isn't "free", in that it's advertiser supported.

    And the two examples you give of pay things, while very valid, ARE available for free to those who want to use it (broadcast TV and tap water).

    So I guess I can concede that there will be a popular pay model for radio, but I can't imagine terrestrial radio completely going away.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,271
    edited November 2008
    Tap water is free? Damn, I've been paying that bill for years. I must have missed the memo.

    I would have been a supporter if the sound was better that what a muffled Bose speaker could offer. I have litterally heard I-pods that sounded better than both services. Not knocking them really, just relaying my observations......
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited November 2008
    treitz3 wrote: »
    Tap water is free? Damn, I've been paying that bill for years. I must have missed the memo.

    I've almost always had a well.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,271
    edited November 2008
    Damn. I was hoping that I had just missed the memo. :mad:
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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
    edited November 2008
    treitz3 wrote: »
    Tap water is free? Damn, I've been paying that bill for years. I must have missed the memo.

    You know WTF I'm sayin'...

    Don't make me drive to NC and take your tweeters. You'll be singing the blues, fella.
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  • Mike Kozak
    Mike Kozak Posts: 931
    edited November 2008
    I really liked the Vault....played stuff I have not heard in years!
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  • krabby5
    krabby5 Posts: 923
    edited November 2008
    I don't know..I love XM...NOTHING on the FM dial is any good for me..
    But I also like old 80's hair metal and THe Boneyard satisfied my tastes...now that went away and is replaced with Hair Nation, which i like even better

    But as far as the rest of you who say you lost stations, I was under the impression that this was just temporary so we can hear what Sirius stations were offered (or vice-versa). Then we would choose a package based on what channels we liked..

    Or am I wrong?
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