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Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: MPTheory on June 23, 2004, 09:23:17 AM: I know you have it vid, and I want to pick it up. Any advice? I just did a quick search, and it seems you can it to work with the existing car stereo? Should I just go for the All in one?
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: videoholic on June 23, 2004, 10:16:45 AM: Does your car have a line in? I was able to take the changer input and go in there. Not too sure how the FM modulation works with it. I\'m sure it still works fine, but damn it\'s so much better than FM it\'s just sick. You forget how many commercials there are and how shitty it sounds till you use XM/Sirius for a while then go back.
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: MPTheory on June 23, 2004, 10:23:56 AM: tell me about it! I just heard it for the first time. Absolutely stunning. So you run yours thru the origional car stereo?
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: Titan on June 23, 2004, 12:04:35 PM: I\'d get XM/Sirius if I listened more to the radio. It is interesting though and will probably get it one day. Which is better, XM or Sirius or do they both have the same/similar broadcasting?
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: theomen on June 23, 2004, 12:06:39 PM: meh, I stick with mp3\'s. With 1800+ I really never listen to the radio.
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: videoholic on June 23, 2004, 12:07:45 PM: They are both similar. If you are into music, go with Sirius. They have 0 commercials on their music channels. XM has commercials on some of their channels.

If you are into talk radio, go with XM. Since they are half owned by Clear Channel, they have all the main talk show hosts on there. Sirius is really light on the talk side.
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: Titan on June 23, 2004, 12:13:14 PM: Quote
Originally posted by theomen
meh, I stick with mp3\'s. With 1800+ I really never listen to the radio.

Same here. I convert my MP3s to waves and put them on my own cds. But some times when I don\'t have a new CD, I\'ll listen to the radio. FM sucks :mad: If I were to go with it, I would go with Sirius, since Vid says there\'s more music. The only talk show I actually like is Howard Stern.
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: MPTheory on June 23, 2004, 12:26:28 PM: Are they the same price per month? Im trying to find out how much its gonna cost me to set it up. I do like some talk radio here and there. Are there DJs on any of the channels? or is it just straight music all the time?
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: videoholic on June 23, 2004, 12:39:12 PM: They are about the wsame now. I think Sirius is down to like 9 bucks or you can buy a life time for like 250 bucks or something. I think XM is about the same.

One more thing, Sirius KICKS ASS IN SPORTS!!!!!

They have exclusive contracts with NFL. They will be broadcasting every game. They also broadcast all of the hockey, NBA, MLB playoffs and a heck of a lot of games in the season. They are sick on sports stuff. It\'s really cool hearing sports without the crappy AM reception.
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: MPTheory on June 23, 2004, 12:53:01 PM: thats cool.. Im not really into listening to the games on radio, rather watch. Im kinda torn on the whole talk radio thing, I do like listening to The Monsters in the Morning and the Drew show here in Orlando.

But you can still listen to regular radio, so I suppose thats no big deal.
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: THX on June 23, 2004, 01:12:09 PM: I heard XM has more "personality" since the DJs will make it sound like traditional radio and breath some life into things.

All I listen to is CDs and switch to FM to hear the news once in a while. I\'m not ready for yet another bill, but those comedy channels sound very cool.
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: videoholic on June 23, 2004, 02:48:53 PM: THere are DJs between songs on Sirius as well. THey are actually pretty good. And a lot of their sweepers are pretty cool.
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: MPTheory on June 23, 2004, 06:11:13 PM: Just picked up XM. I was gonna get the Sirius, but the chick at Best Buy (which was pretty hot BTW) told me some things that made me change my mind. XM added 20 more stations and took out all commercials on the music channels. Plus they maintained the $9.99/month fee. Its cool. I just hooked it up and had it activated. Now I just have to figure out how to use the damn thing haha
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: videoholic on June 23, 2004, 07:03:20 PM: Very cool. Enjoy. It\'s freaking awesome.
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: Titan on June 23, 2004, 09:11:35 PM: Quote
Originally posted by MPTheory
Just picked up XM. I was gonna get the Sirius, but the chick at Best Buy (which was pretty hot BTW) told me some things that made me change my mind.

Well, sex sells :p
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: MPTheory on June 24, 2004, 04:31:46 AM: yeah, I would have bought BOTH systems if she droped down and gave skull! ;)
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: videoholic on June 24, 2004, 07:58:15 AM: :nopics:
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: MPTheory on June 24, 2004, 08:44:59 AM: Of the chick or the xmradio steup?

I can snap some pictures tonight.
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: videoholic on June 24, 2004, 09:50:03 AM: Yeah, like I am going to go run a batch to your XM setup.
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: MPTheory on June 24, 2004, 10:05:26 AM: well, I do recall a certan someone taking pictures of the inside of ther BMW...
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: CHIZZY on June 24, 2004, 10:09:25 AM: I snapped off a load of baby batter to that....
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: videoholic on June 24, 2004, 11:40:14 AM: Yeah, but I got my unit for free. Not from a little hotty.
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: kirath on June 24, 2004, 11:54:52 AM: I have both Sirrius and XM - I like the content on XM better and my girl likes Sirius, so I guess it all comes down to personal preference.

But XM is commercial free now, though I never noticed any commercials on the stations I listened to anyways. But they are very similar and for the price difference XM is a better deal.
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: videoholic on June 24, 2004, 12:44:46 PM: Unless you get it for free. :thepimp: :artyon: :headbang:
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: MPTheory on June 24, 2004, 12:50:06 PM: haha, how do you get it for free???
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: videoholic on June 24, 2004, 01:10:26 PM: They are actually pretty easy to get for free. They run promotions quite often. But the unit I have is very basic. Sounds the same, but very basic.
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: MPTheory on June 24, 2004, 03:57:12 PM: gotcha.. I thought you meant your service is free too
Title: Some Advice on Satallite radio
Post by: kirath on June 24, 2004, 04:24:00 PM: Thats true! I did get the Sirius setup for free. I have not seen any recent promotions, but they did seem to be running them for awhile.