While I'm an XM fan, I have to respond about the HD comment. Yes, HD is free, but when you compare what you get on HD to sat radio, you understand why they give HD away. Commercials, limited play lists, constant jabber by DJs, no variety, no depth, no catering specific genres. For less than the cost of a CD (or a few bucks more than one album download from iTunes), you have a month of incredible music, talk, sports and comedy -- something that you cannot get from HD.
Like they say, you get what you pay for -- if it's free, it probably blows.
I prefer XM, others prefer Sirius ... either way, both are much better than HD.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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While I'm an XM fan, I have to respond about the HD comment. Yes, HD is free, but when you compare what you get on HD to sat radio, you understand why they give HD away. Commercials, limited play lists, constant jabber by DJs, no variety, no depth, no catering specific genres. For less than the cost of a CD (or a few bucks more than one album download from iTunes), you have a month of incredible music, talk, sports and comedy -- something that you cannot get from HD.
Like they say, you get what you pay for -- if it's free, it probably blows.
I prefer XM, others prefer Sirius ... either way, both are much better than HD.