My wife handles the bills for me and she just mentioned that XM just lowered our rate to $7 a month from about $13. She just cut them a check for the whole year. We have had XM for several years and I own half dozen XM receivers but we have only one with a very large easy to read display currently activated.
We really do not need XM any more and probably would have dropped it if they hadn’t cut us that new rate. Satellite radio already faces severe problems in our family and I suspect we are typical of most others. We used to have three radios activated with XM for several years and it cost a chunk of money to carry them but we have cut back with the increased expense of three dollar gas.
I could care less about most XM channels except the news, traffic, and weather. I listen to an iPod more than XM while mobile; but I like the scrolling traffic alerts in Atlanta area and keep XM going visually monitoring it. I have just discovered from our local NPR stations Morning Edition that by buying a new type Digital radio I can get a slew of channels including 24 hour news at no additional cost here in Atlanta Georgia.
My wife listens to XM for Old Time radio and Sonic Theater.
I demonstrated to my wife that she can get her OT and mystery radio fix by using internet radio streams and the easy to use ITunes interface. She can do this mobile in some areas using WiFi for the net connection. I am surprised at how many spots give us a signal in shopping centers and in a restaurant districts.
The only advantage XM has is that XM gives a solid signal far from the towns where free WiFi and local stations don’t adequately reach.
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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My wife handles the bills for me and she just mentioned that XM just lowered our rate to $7 a month from about $13. She just cut them a check for the whole year. We have had XM for several years and I own half dozen XM receivers but we have only one with a very large easy to read display currently activated.
We really do not need XM any more and probably would have dropped it if they hadn’t cut us that new rate. Satellite radio already faces severe problems in our family and I suspect we are typical of most others. We used to have three radios activated with XM for several years and it cost a chunk of money to carry them but we have cut back with the increased expense of three dollar gas.
I could care less about most XM channels except the news, traffic, and weather. I listen to an iPod more than XM while mobile; but I like the scrolling traffic alerts in Atlanta area and keep XM going visually monitoring it. I have just discovered from our local NPR stations Morning Edition that by buying a new type Digital radio I can get a slew of channels including 24 hour news at no additional cost here in Atlanta Georgia.
My wife listens to XM for Old Time radio and Sonic Theater.
I demonstrated to my wife that she can get her OT and mystery radio fix by using internet radio streams and the easy to use ITunes interface. She can do this mobile in some areas using WiFi for the net connection. I am surprised at how many spots give us a signal in shopping centers and in a restaurant districts.
The only advantage XM has is that XM gives a solid signal far from the towns where free WiFi and local stations don’t adequately reach.