The Village being vacated

[kc1ih]

As of Jan 12, The Village will be an internet only channel. A bunch of new Spanish-language channels and a Korean channel will start on that date.

 

[FRR]

Just another way that we in the US can take joy in "celebrating diversity".. That Korean channel will certainly be big in the heartland.

 

[dxer720]

More channels I have to pay for, but will never listen to. XM's (OK, Sirius/XM) value to me has gone down, but the price went up.

 

[Ai4i]

Robert Aubry Davis is a great programmer and a great personality.
VOX!, his other channel, failed to survive the merger.
SXM 2.0 will return many beloved channels such as Luna, Cinemagic, and The Village

 

[CTListener]

SXM 2.0 will return many beloved channels such as Luna, Cinemagic, and The Village

Where did you hear this? I thought 2.0 was going to be used for more mainstream Spanish music programming, further splintering of rock and urban formats, and branded celebrity content. That's how I remember Greenstein hyping it at its public unveiling.

 

[Ai4i]

Right now, only Luna has returned, but ultimately twice as much bandwidth as is currently available will be.
This is because most content is currently being duplicated on two networks, but when the transition completes, there will be only one network, not a Sirius net and an XM net, and all the receivers will be receiving the full bandwidth.
What they ultimately do with this extra bandwidth is anybody's guess.

 

[JH_Radio]

OH crap, what about those of us that have older radio's?
the cars (including 2012) that have version 1.0?
What about those of us who have both services (which radio's use different codeks?)
I forgot to mention the older ones being sold on places like eBay too.
They're not just gonna say "Have a working radio? Tough. you're gettin a new one... and you gotta pay for it."
Will they have converters like they do for DTV to anolog TV ?
I hope they use the extra space for better sound!