[Dynagroove] XM or Sirius?

[Emily Sinclair]

Yeah, I figured that satellite radio couldn¹t possibly have the insanely
cool selection that internet radio does. Damn them. Oh well. I will save up
for it, or maybe it¹ll just come in a new car I get someday. Thanks for the
heads up. But I must say that it IS promising that Lars Berenroth is on XM!

Emily

on 8/3/05 9:06 AM, Geoff Starsiak at geoffstarsiak at yahoo.com wrote:

> I don't know much about Sirius except they don't have a decent portable yet
> and they just signed BBC Radio 1 to broadcast over it, which can have some
> decent music on occasion.
>
> I have an XM portable and I love it.  It's not clunky, it works in the car,
> home, everywhere else.  It works great in my office even though I'm 20 feet
> from the nearest window (both sirius and xm boost their signal in major
cities
> so that the signal will go through walls and mostly everyplace else).  The
> stations aren't bad at all, but you have to be ready to listen to a variety
of
> music.  The 3 'dance' stations are good at times, but suck at other times.
> Lars Berenroth has a show that's good, and some of the other shows have
good
> mixes.  If you're strict about what genre you're looking for, then it may
not
> suit you because it's usually a variety (like 2 hours of house, 2 hours of
> breaks, an hour of techno all mixed across a few stations).  But the Alt
rock
> stations are also really good.
>
> Future option,  in a few months they are coming out with a portable xm
radio
> that you can click a button to save an artist or song you like, plug it
into
> your computer and download the song onto the internal hard drive..
basically
> making it a satellite radio + mp3 player which would at least give you the
> option of variety when you want it, and to hear stuff you already know you
> like when you want to as well.
>
> Geoff
>
>> Anyone out there have XM or Sirius in the car yet? Me neither. I find
myself
>> a traditional cd spinner and sometimes I even bust out my ipod on long
trips
>> in other states while driving enterprise vehicles. But other than that, I
>> haven't even ventured into that satellite radio world. I LOVE my internet
>> radio through iTunes, but when comparing both XM and sirius for
potentially
>> decent house music stations, I found almost nothing, especially compared
to
>> internet radio. Sorry, Tiesto and Van Dyk along with Little Louis Vega
>> sounds scary to me.
>>
>> Can anyone enlighten me on these and the options available?
>>
>> Emily
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