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From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 28 Mar 2010 22:42 On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:29:06 -0700, Jeff Strickland wrote: > At one point, the customer had to look at the offerings and decide on one > service or the other, as I understand it now this is no longer the case. > You get the same on both systems even if the hardware is not compatible or > interchangeable. Not entirely. There is a Sirius "classic" package, and an XM "classic" package, and if you want the Sirius channels added to your XM you have to pay extra. I can live without Howard Stern, thanks. He's making lots of dough seeing how many times he can say 'penis' during a broadcast, and I don't think it's any better now that he's on a basically unregulated medium. Besides, I used to listen to him back in 1979 on WCCC in Hartford.
From: Jane Galt on 29 Mar 2010 01:22 =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote : > On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:17:01 -0500, Jane Galt wrote: > >>> Keep in mind that the head units that are XM Ready still need an XM >>> receiver -- I'd like to take a moment to mention that XM and Sirius have >>> merged, and I use XM to mean either of them -- to get the signal. I >>> can't stress how much I enjoyed mine while I had it (the car it was >>> installed in was stolen, and I did not replace it). I especially liked >>> it because where I live in the Black Hole of radio markets caused me to >>> costantly be tuning the radio trying to find something that came in >>> better than the static. We get three things on radio here, Mexicans, >>> Religion, and static. >> >> I've been looking at an XM forum and they nix the HD FM part. Seems the HD >> and HD surround sound standard never caught on, and likely wont. > > XM is already a digital signal, and is already pretty good. Nobody has gotten surround sound right yet. > One of my clients is a radio station in NH that runs multiple stations > from file servers. We were repairing one of the servers and the engineer > gave me a demonstration of HD. They have an AM radio station that runs > Rush Limbaugh in the afternoon, and port the signal over to a low power FM > station as well. So you get talk radio with FM quality. Kool. I'm not a Rush fan, but close - Glenn Beck. > They have a monitor in the server room and he switched from broadcast AM > to HD AM. WOW! Then he swtiched to an AM Stereo country station they run. > WOW!!! Unbelieveable sound. But I understand the HD standard is dying out, from the guys at the XM forum. > Then he put on the FM side of the country station, which sounded about as > good as the AM HD station. Then he put on the FM HD version of the > station. Not really a noticeable difference. But is anyone actually broadcasting in it? > For broadcast AM HD makes a tremendous difference, not so much with FM > (and we were sitting under the toweer, so we had a good signal). Since XM > is digital already, HD isn't a big consideration. Now, HD Surround would > probably be pretty good, but you would need a sound system on par with the > Bose system used in the Corvette to be noticable. It can be done, but how > much do you want to spend on a sound system Exactly. But remember, the first pre-production color TV's were $30k, I think. Hey the chinese can do anything cheap. LOL > (HINT: A friend of mine with a > Prism installed a kick-a$$ sound system, and when the car got stolen the > insurance co said, We'll pay $11,500 for the stero, but you're taking a > loss on the car...) LOL -- Jane Galt "There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide." -- Ayn Rand
From: Jane Galt on 29 Mar 2010 01:23 =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote : > On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:29:06 -0700, Jeff Strickland wrote: > >> At one point, the customer had to look at the offerings and decide on one >> service or the other, as I understand it now this is no longer the case. >> You get the same on both systems even if the hardware is not compatible or >> interchangeable. > > Not entirely. There is a Sirius "classic" package, and an XM "classic" > package, and if you want the Sirius channels added to your XM you have to > pay extra. > > I can live without Howard Stern, thanks. He's making lots of dough seeing > how many times he can say 'penis' during a broadcast, and I don't think > it's any better now that he's on a basically unregulated medium. Besides, > I used to listen to him back in 1979 on WCCC in Hartford. I'm not a Stern fan either and dont know what the political talk offerings are on either of them, but I DVR Glenn Beck 5 days a week anyway and watch it at bedtime or when I wake up. -- Jane Galt "There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide." -- Ayn Rand
From: ---MIKE--- on 29 Mar 2010 12:30 I have an HD tuner in my home. I tune in to 107.9 (Vermont public radio) and get an excellent signal even though I am 70 miles from the transmitter. I use it for the classical music network (sub 2) which I can't get on regular FM. I added the Sirius receiver because I was not always happy with VPR's programming. ---MIKE--- >>In the White Mountains of New Hampshire >> (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')
From: dr_jeff on 29 Mar 2010 13:10
---MIKE--- wrote: > I have an HD tuner in my home. I tune in to 107.9 (Vermont public > radio) and get an excellent signal even though I am 70 miles from the > transmitter. I use it for the classical music network (sub 2) which I > can't get on regular FM. I added the Sirius receiver because I was not > always happy with VPR's programming. > > > ---MIKE--- >>> In the White Mountains of New Hampshire > >> (44� 15' N - Elevation 1580') > Instead of paying for it, I just get radio over the internet. With Apple iTunes, you can get many different radio programs, either as a stream of the broadcast or as a podcast. At the moment, I am listening to a podcast of NPR's "Cartalk." I can listen to radio from all over the country and outside the country. Jeff |