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Which Would You Choose?

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Mike_O

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You just bought a new vehicle. It comes standard with a CD player and AM FM Radio. At no additional cost to you, you have three chooses. A IBOC HD-Radio, Satellite Service package of both Sirius and XM without any monthly charges for the first three years or a Wi-Fi radio? All three are digital signals and in this scenario Wi-Fi is broadcasting on all the cell phone towers, which means you could very well take your favorite web radio station across the country or still program it for you musical tastes. You would have well over a couple thousand choices, likely 10,000 or more.

You could opt for the dual Satellite package which would give you well over 200+ stations of music, news, talk, sports, business news and probably under a subscription service that can be locked out so the children can't listen to the stations, several channels of adult language and talk (ie: sexxx). Stern strangly comes to mine.

Or your favorite local music stations in full HD-Radio. Not to tilt the vote, but the vehicle does come with a stanard analog AM-FM radio that you could tune to for local news in times of emergency.

Which package would you have installed in your vehicle? Wi-Fi web broadcasting, XM & Sirius rolled into one package or HD-Radio where you can listen to your favorite stations in CD quality or if AM, well AM isn't worked out yet. But AM is the News, Talk, Sports and Multicultural stations anyway. You really don't digital for that type of programming.

Mike
 
> You could opt for the dual Satellite package which would
> give you well over 200+ stations of music, news, talk,
> sports, business news and probably under a subscription
> service that can be locked out so the children can't listen
> to the stations, several channels of adult language and talk
> (ie: sexxx). Stern strangly comes to mine.
>

satellite....more variety!

even with local in crisp HD sound, you still only get 20 stations playing the same 300 songs. I know there would be options for additional "A/B" stations...smooth jazz/jazz, old country/new country, but even that only would be unique for about 6 months.

I've been listening to XM for almost a year and I haven't missed not hearing Houston (Cheap Channel) except for bits and pieces. when your local alternative station is hyping the new Staind and Nickelback, something is wrong.<P ID="signature">______________

"I'll see you Left of the Dial!"</P>
 
> Which package would you have installed in your vehicle?
> Wi-Fi web broadcasting, XM & Sirius rolled into one package
> or HD-Radio


In order of preference:

1) XM & Sirius rolled into one package

2) Wi-Fi web broadcasting

3) HD-Radio
 
For free.. for the first 3 years I would half to go with XM, with traffic coverage & weather, also I think they have a lot better repeater coverage. I'm trying to debate myself on what to get if I realy want to pay for radio or not, I may wait untill christmas time to see what comes out. Xm probably would be your best bet. There online streams are better quality than Sirius are. You'll have that also I would think.<P ID="signature">______________
jras20</P>
 
Satellite. Period. No question.

I've had Sirius since late last year and don't miss ANYTHING on local radio (other than Rome from 11a-2p).

Got traffic reports, no commercials during music, sports with on-screen scoring updates, news and more.

Keep HD radio and Wi-Fi. Satellite is huge. And I'll even PAY the $12 per month.
 
> Satellite. Period. No question.
>
> I've had Sirius since late last year and don't miss ANYTHING
> on local radio (other than Rome from 11a-2p).
>
> Got traffic reports, no commercials during music, sports
> with on-screen scoring updates, news and more.
>
> Keep HD radio and Wi-Fi. Satellite is huge. And I'll even
> PAY the $12 per month.
>
But if you can listen to satellite radio on the web, can you listen to it on a Wi-Fi Radio? Because if you can, there is no point getting the sattellite radio if you can listen to it through the wi-fi radio.
 
> Satelite - even if it were only one - I would prefer XM if I
> had to choose
>
Wi-Fi for sure, if it truly had that kind of coverage. I've been streaming audio off the net for as long as I can remember, and love it. I've got about 40 stations bookmarked in winamp, I simply love the selection, you can get ANYTHING. Of course, only if they stream at 128 or better, which alot of the radio stations do not do. I've got a couple of 160k streams I listen to that sound pretty freaking good. I just don't see how you could beat the selection of Wi-fi could bring if you could stream anything off the net. Of course, there would have to be wi-fi on every cell tower like you said...otherwise it'd be pretty useless.

Otherwise, XM for sure. I have it now and love it. I do wish their online stream was of better quality, its very low, like 64k or so....but, atleast its there.

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