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I've got a better solution: it's called broadcast radio and it's free. And thanks to the internet, you don't even need a frigging receiver!

Sirius is a joke.]]>Jun 17th 2007 2:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/16/sirius-echo-home-repeater-system-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/16/sirius-echo-home-repeater-system-now-available/Jul 1st 2007 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/16/sirius-echo-home-repeater-system-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/16/sirius-echo-home-repeater-system-now-available/
Instead, I've set up an old laptop as a dedicated music player, and we use that to stream sirius online. But even this solution has its problems: sirius disconnects you after some time if you don't respond to a "are you still there?" prompt.

This home repeater system with as far as I can tell will only help IF you can get a decent signal to hit the external antenna 24/7, is $100 accomplish what is expected of the existing radio+external antenna.

All in all, I find Sirius NOT worth paying for.]]>Jul 1st 2007 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/16/sirius-echo-home-repeater-system-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/16/sirius-echo-home-repeater-system-now-available/Jul 2nd 2007 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/16/sirius-echo-home-repeater-system-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/16/sirius-echo-home-repeater-system-now-available/
Nobody cares about Satellite radio, seriously. I have an XM in my coupe and it's useless, sounds compressed as hell and at $13 a month per radio, they can screw.

TG4 iPod. ]]>Jun 17th 2007 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/16/sirius-echo-home-repeater-system-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/16/sirius-echo-home-repeater-system-now-available/I don't really watch TV anymore because it's great in the background and in the car the only thing that can supplement it is my mp3 player.

Not to mention Les Davis on Pure Jazz 72!
He's like your cool uncle who's jacket smells funny and tells you cool stuff about Jazz.

On my Sirius radios or streaming, it's all good.

That being said, I have to give Sirius credit for also breaking me out of my old school thinking about radio and the kind of entertainment it brings.

For that reason I must also give hearty props to slacker radio ( www.slacker.com )
When I stream and want just music it's all about the Slacker.

Using either one at home with multiple radios is as simple as plugging an FM modulator into my headphone jack and turning the volume up to 7 or 8 on a scale of 10. (11 is right out!)

My next project is likely a hack that puts the guts of an FM modulator in an ever-lovin' Altiods tin with some other enhancements (like USB power) for doing just this very thing.

If you like it then it's great.
If you don't, or if you just want to keep abreast of this stuff then seek alternatives.

It's part of this whole "living the future" stuff we signed up for when we were kids, remember?

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