Nice...never hurts to negotiate.

 

XM is losing a lot of people to Sirius these days. They have to do what they can to keep business. It really doesn't cost them that much per subscriber, so half price is better then nothing for them.

 

I think neither one is not worth the $$$..
Sound quality is sub par CD or MP3 quality...

 

True, but its better (with an aux jack)/on par (if you use an FM modulator) with radio and the content is so much better.

 

Thanks to schmucks like you, XM will keep pushing their profitibility ETA dates back further and further. Why do you want to create grief for them and try to make their business challenges harder?

A true fan of the service wouldn't do that. :thumbdown

 

That's the sillyest idea I've heard. Are you an XM rep?

Do you insist on paying MSPR for your car? Or insist on paying for warranty services?

 

I find that I miss the local nature of broadcast FM. Im guess I'm lucky that we actually have halfway decent radio station choices here. My brother has XM and his new jeep came with a year of sirius so we listen to both. Maybe if they weren't so assinine with in what they are paying for broadcast rights their subscription fees would be more reasonable. I'm not paying for radio for approx 2 hours a day. I' m just not impressed with the service at all, and I find we still end up listening to commercials. Of course it doesn't help that my brother has schizophrenic musical tastes and ADD. He honestly can't listen to a complete song through and we go from bluegrass to gangsta rap and every where in between every 60 seconds. I friggin hate when he drives!

 

I thought women were the ones aflicted with that. I guess its spreading :lol:

 

must be nice, I really am not a fan of Local chicago stations. We don't even get Bob and Tom, that made my mornings when i lived back in indiana.

 

I'm pretty sure they tried Bob and Tom in Chicago and it bombed. I go with "Jack", WIIL out of Kenosha or my collection of CDs and mp3's.

 

Sound quality of XM is fantastic when wired direct but is tinny when FM modulated. I found XM sound quality better than Sirrius in any of the Audis I took home.

 

I second that. If you like music and lots of it, with the quality of a high bitrate mp3, and don't care for they shitty local talk, then satellite is perfect. I have both, XM in the passat and stock Sirius unit in the Audi. The XM sound quality beats Sirius hands down. It is worth my 12.95 per mth IMO. I am also one of those people that could care less about losing touch with the community thru radio.

 

Thats what Ipods are for. The local guy in the morning here is funny too. I stick to the ipod most of the time.

 

what if i call and they actually let me cancel mine..eeeep i wont be happy. Im not gonna try it. My parents pay for mine anyway :/

 

I called earlier this week to cancel the sub for one of my receivers, the XM-Direct hardwired in the VW. We also have another receiver (some kind of portable) my wife uses.

They made the portable the primary unit on the account, offered a free RoadyXT and 1/2 price service for it! It only works if you are adding a receiver to an existing account.

EDIT: Anybody want to buy an XM-Direct receiver? Also have a couple of the Pioneer adapters, one CD-RB10, one CD-RB20. These allow you to connect the XM-Direct to a Pioneer HU IP Bus. You only really need one - I used the second to connect the audio out from my hadheld GPS through the HU. I have all of the cables, but you will need to get a satellite antenna; it's too much of a pain to get all of that cable out of the car!

Jack
daedalusnj@earthlink.net

 

The bitrates used by XM are so low, they make an iPod seem like an audiophile masterpiece. Trust me, I know more about their IT back-end than I ever wanted to learn.

SirWired

 

so then Sirius is even worse then? Every system I have heard Sirius on sounds way worse than any system I have heard XM on(receivers I mean)