XM or Sirius

[wingnut2u]

Well the time has come and I must make the painstaking decision of choosing XM or Sirius. Taking Howard out of the equation, which one do you prefer and why?

Thanks for the opinions and comments.

[HummerNewbie]

I have never had Sirius so can't really say. I have heard the sound quality isn't as good on Sirius but that they have a better rock selection that you get on XM. I primarily went with XM because I wanted the XM Traffic feature for my NAV system.

[GLBLWARMR]

I had Sirius in a rental car while back in the US and didn't see anything wrong with it. It had good sound great rock and metal station. Had numerous tv stations that came in really good on the dvd screens. Granted I had to watch 24 hours of Spongebob on a trip from NH down to DC. I have never had XM so I cannot say but you won't lose going with Sirius.

[usetosellhummer]

XM runs commericals on some music channels.
Sirius nascar in o7, rawdog comedy, Bubba, great 80's channel on First Wave. Sirius is going to take out XM by the end of 07 so go with Sirius.
Howard Stern is a radio God.

[DRTYFN]

Originally Posted by usetosellhummer

Sirius is going to take out XM by the end of 07 so go with Sirius.
Howard Stern is a radio God.

You keep sucking on the has-been's weenus. I was a huge fan of his before he got divorced, became a shill for the radical left and turned into everything he used to make fun of. Remember when he was crowing about freedom of speech and how great his website & forum were? I was the first person banned from that forum for speaking my opinion that was contrary to what he wanted to hear. Sad, but all good things eventually go away. *rantoff*

[ssgharkness020147]

My family has XM in their cars. When I went to buy sattelite I bought Sirius without ever having listened to it think "hey the music cant be worse then XM's". Boy was I right Sirius ROCKS the music is awesome.

[BlueHUMMERH2]

I've had both. Go with SIRIUS. They have less channels that are edited for content, more "edgy" selections, and are expected to over take XM in suscriber numbers soon. If you like rock, Octane is awesome. Alt Nation is pretty good, Faction has some of the hip-hop/rock crossover stuff and punk rock, you've got Hair Nation, Jam_On for DMB type music, Buzzsaw has some edgy classic rock. All my brothers (who are in the 35-45 range) have switched or originally went with SIRIUS. They love it.

Oh yeah, what usetosellhummer said, XM played a nasty trick on us former suscribers (which is why I switched). They added all these "new" channels, and then they said they'd be adding commericals to some of the old music channels. So basically, they wedged in one new channel for every old one that was overtaken by commericals. Their variety of music just sucks anyway. About the only cool XM-specific channel is Cinemagic, but you can live without it.

[robb]

Howard sucks!
Dont get me wrong, back in his day Howard was the ****. But he got a huge 500 million dollar contract and sirius thought all of his listeners would come with him but only about 10% made the journey.

As far as "sirius taking out XM by 07", Not a chance in hell!!!! Do a little bit of research and you will see that XM's fan base is far greater than sirius.





Go with XM. Opie and anthony on XM 202 rock.

[champipple]

I have xm in the car and sirrius at work. I would go with sirrus simply because of variety. XM offers a lot on the music side but seems a little too buttoned down on the talk side.

my.02

[bparker]

I had both and I went with SIRUS and I would never take it out now.. nope no way.. too much good music and a good variety... they play **** I actually WANT to hear.. I think XM is a joke if you pay for it.

Just my experience.

[raptorman53]

Sirius all the way. Just waiting for the trial xm to run out.

[mountainbiker]

How about our fellow HUMMER owners in Europe--I wonder what they are listening to for satellite radio, or if XM or Sirrus has any plans to extend their coverage? I thought I read somewhere there is a huge satellite radio company in Europe called WorldSpace that supplied technology to XM in exchange for stock.

http://radio.about.com/od/worldspace/

[f5fstop]

Originally Posted by mountainbiker

How about our fellow HUMMER owners in Europe--I wonder what they are listening to for satellite radio, or if XM or Sirrus has any plans to extend their coverage? I thought I read somewhere there is a huge satellite radio company in Europe called WorldSpace that supplied technology to XM in exchange for stock.

http://radio.about.com/od/worldspace/

Reason XM, in the beginning, had better receivers for sale. Worldspace did invest in XM, as well as GM. I know of no one who actually has Worldspace, so I have no idea what they play. I'm not too sure if Worldspace still retains any ownership or large stock of XM.

Personal opinion is all that matters in this area. I work with people who will argue for hours as to which is best, and all it boils down to is personal opinion of what is being playing by each company, and are you satisfied with what you are paying for.
Who knows, someday I may go back to Sirius, but right now, I'm satisfied with XM, and I don't consider it a JOKE, anymore than I think Sirius is a joke. They are different, and for that reason we have some competition in the satellite radio market, while the rest of the world doesn't. Imagine, if Sirius and XM merged, the costs would go up dramatically. So let's all hope both companies stay in business, remain close to the number of subscribers, and keep the prices down for all.

Arguing about this is like being in a redneck bar watching to rednecks argue about Ford vs. Chevy trucks.

The reason XM was required to change some stations (4) to commercial stations:
"In March of this year, an arbitration panel settled a legal dispute between Clear Channel and XM. The panel decided that Clear Channel had the right to include commercials on 4 music channels which it gained (and programmed) from a 1998 investment in XM Satellite Radio.

XM?s response was to launch 4 new music channels, in the same respective genre, to compensate for this loss of commercial-free status. As a matter of fact, it added even more than four.

A March 27, 2006 News Release from XM stated ?XM added two new commercial-free music channels on March 1: Big Tracks (XM Channel 49), focusing on classic rock from the late 70's onward, and XM Chill (XM Channel 84), devoted to Chill music. During April and May, XM will bring the total number of new commercial-free music channels to 10??

The service positions this change by stating it has ??the most commercial-free music channels in satellite radio.? Notice it doesn?t flat out state they are all commercial-free. Increasing the number of channels allowed the company to boast of quantity ? which can easily be misinterpreted by an average listener to mean they are all commercial-free.

The Clear Channel/XM relationship is supposed to end in 2008. Then, XM can once again go back to real commercial-free music programming, should it wish."

[witweew]

....yeah -- I thought I'd pipe in and say that people are getting
sick of the same old rock/hip-hop/r&b bullsh*t..... and there is just
this big upsurge from a new style coming out of Europe
-- it's pretty easy to find, just put 'euro club hits' into itunes or
check this link:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...ub+Hits+Vol +

[Karsun]

I've only ever had Sirius but I love it. And yes, a station with all 80's hair metal really is necessary, plus they have the cute dog.