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If you use the website to figure out new channel lineups, beware! The "customized guide" will give you an incomplete list of channels, so it is not worth the time to create it. Better just to pull up the entire new lineup for the package you have...I did that and discoered there were a couple of channels listed that I didn't know about before that I want to listen to.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
Presets all look very strange now (with different numbers) but they stayed in the same position so I'll be able to remember them. The category button on my radio makes a bit more sense now. After the merge, it was all over the place.
Internet Car Radios Will Surge By 2018 (AutoObserver)
I may anyway, if Opie & Anthony and/or Ron/Fez ever go away or lose even more content.
A crystal set beats xm any day of the week!
I agree. My wife's new car has a 6-month subscription to Sirius, and I prefer it to regular radio by and large - about the only thing I listen to are Colorado Rockies games.
There is more talk than in the past, but still less than what you get on an FM "drive time" station.
Exactly. On our recent trip to AZ and NM, we listened to Sirius pretty much the whole trip. We switched between a few channels.
I still occasionally listen to broadcast radio, but not very often. I don't have HD radio in the car though - I hear that triples the selections. May have to try that out at some point.
And what about internet radio? I am assuming that depends on some sort of cell network signal, so does it drop out a lot? Does it freeze if it can't stream it fast enough? Or are those issues non-existent with the internet radios currently being installed in new cars?
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
I'll be watching how this develops closely. Much of what I listen to these days are podcasts or mp3 files I download from radio stations that may be clear across the country (Imus, etc.). If an internet radio in a car allows download capability, I can download many hours of entertainment in a few minutes for trips across the wide-open spaces out here in the west.
As it is, I spend at least half the time in my car listening to my mp3 player running through the aux input.
Sirius XM is rolling out SiriusXM 2.0 this week, a new platform that features nearly two dozen more stations. The problem is that folks need to buy new receivers. Two receivers will be available in stores this holiday season, but it will take automakers a year or two before rolling out new cars with factory-installed SiriusXM 2.0 systems."
Sirius Trouble: Is Satellite Radio Headed for a Fall? (dailyfinance.com)
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
In our van, the adapter I put in also runs the ipod, so if I took it away from the wife, she would live with ipod and FM (and ipod for travel).
My son is the one that bugged to keep it, for his drive back and forth from the wilderness, but the Acura does have a CD player (changer I think, but not sure!). He just doesn't have many CDs (everything on the ipod). Should just get him an adapter and cut the cord!
will likely go back when we get a new car for my wife since most likely it will all be integrated.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
The car has an AUX port and a 6-CD changer, but I'm thinking about adding iPod compatibility to it so it will charge the iPod and allow the steering wheel controls to be used.
One of the things I don't like about the ipod is not being able to see the info on the radio display. not convenient or safe to have to pick up the ipod itself to change things.
in our van, the USAspec unit we installed does charge the ipod, and integrates to the radio buttons, just not the display. So I can skip songs, but not see what is on 9or do any other ipod functions),
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
In our fleet, only the daughter's MINI has full iPod integration with a separate cable. The ION and CX-7 only have an AUX port.
The wife does not use her iPod in the CX-7 - she doesn't like to have to look at the iPod for controls, and it runs the charge down. (She doesn't like the Bose unit in our house either as that doesn't charge the iPod)
OTOH, I do use my iPod in the ION when I'm delivering pizzas. Yes, it's a pain to have to use the iPod to skip songs and I have to pause it every time I turn the car off, otherwise it continues to run and drain the battery.
I've given some thought to investing a few hundred $$$'s to get a new head unit with both full iPod integration and Bluetooth; the ION has a double-DIN factory unit, so an aftermarket unit shouldn't be too tough to find.
Anyone care?
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Does Sirius notify you at the end of the trial or start billing you???
I just got mine from XM for the Acura I bought on 8/31.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
was wrong with the unit.
I cancelled and uninstalled the unit from my car. Every month or so they try to get me back by offering the service for some unbelievably low price. Not to my taste.
Ever since they merged they could care less about customers.
They have not gone off. I have detected no problems-brakes feel fine. If I take it to have
it looked at I am fearful of a ripoff. Has anyone had this problem? Thanks for any help.
This was the wrong week to give up airplane glue.
uneveness and the noise is deafening. Local garage said they couldn't find anything. The noise
sounds like pieces of metal rattling around in the wheel well. Of course there is a tire there and
the tire changing stuff is "nailed" down. Noise only comes from the rear. Other than this annoying problem all seems well. 90,000 mi. Any help would be appreciated.
Liberty is taking over Sirius XM so more changes are likely coming.
I did a 9 hour road trip today and just listened to my $5 MP3 gizmo through my radio for about 6 hours of that. I did miss trying to find some news stations, it being the aftermath of election day and all. But I wouldn't get my monies worth out of a monthly subscription.
Sirius XM, which has its satellite radios in 70 percent of new vehicles, generates the vast majority of its revenue through subscriptions and derives only a fraction from advertising dollars. Streaming service Pandora is just the opposite, collecting most of its revenue from advertising and operating only a nascent subscription business.
But the migration of music audiences to mobile devices threatens to upend a market that Sirius current dominates."
In battle for the car, Sirius faces fight from Pandora (Reuters)
Plus most sat radio is entirely commercial-free, which is worth a lot to me all by itself. I don't think sat radio can just sit on its hands, and it is certainly borderline too expensive, but I don't thnk Pandora is going to KO Sirius any time soon.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
KO, no, not anytime soon, but faster than one might think.
Right now, Sirius XM is the much bigger company, with almost 24 million subscribers and more than $3 billion in annual revenue. In the third quarter, it generated average revenue of $12.14 per subscriber.
Pandora, by contrast has 60 million users, about 1 million of whom are paid subscribers, and is on track to generate $424 million in revenue this year.
60 million is a lot more exposure than 24 million, and Pandora is aiming at the younger crowd market, a segment that is the future.
"From the consumer standpoint, the reception advantages of satellite radio will be marginalized or go away over time," said a former Sirius XM executive familiar with the business models of the company and its competitors.
just not enough bandwidth to go around.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Are the carriers really doing everything they can to limit your usage, or are they doing everything they can to make you pay for using it?
It's a subtle, but very real, difference...
they are like drug dealers. Give out some free samples to get you hooked, then ratchet up the price when you are!
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Good analogy.
IMO, the wireless carriers see themselves as entitled to some of the gold they carry.
In essence, its a sly way to change the business model... Sort of like me sending you $100 each week through the mail and one day the mailman says to himself..."Sure, you paid me to deliver the $100 by purchasing a stamp, but now that I realize I've been delivering something of value to you, in a reliable manner, I'm entitled to a little piece of the action as well".
Carrying data only pays so much...a bit like "Time to increase the size of my piece of pie... Bigger piece of the same size pie, or same % of a bigger pie... ".
Either one works...
I have a 2011 Nissan Quest. It came with the free trial of XM, and I let it run out. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed the GPS was throwing up weather warnings - and sure enough XM is operating. I never re-subscribed - did this happen to anyone before?
The Sandman :sick: :shades:
2023 Hyundai Kona Limited AWD (wife) / 2015 Golf TSI (me) / 2019 Chevrolet Cruze Premier RS (daughter #1) / 2020 Hyundai Accent SE (daughter #2) / 2023 Subaru Impreza Base (son)
I just bought a new car, and had an aftermarket unit in my old car. The Sirius trial was already active, and I simply migrated the old subscription over, took about 15 minutes on the phone. Went off without a hitch. Everything works perfectly in the new integrated unit, and some stations even offer year of release info.
Being frugal, I got a $5 FM transmitter gizmo for playing MP3s on a USB stick when I'm in my old Outback and can't pick up anything on the radio. But I'm no audiophile.
It does sound like you got a lousy install or unit. Maybe you can swing by the dealer and listen to an OEM one and compare notes.
Having made that clear, its important to note that for the average listener, most will be satisfied by the quality is Satellite radio music.
However, one with exceptionally good ears, or a true audiophile may not be very pleased with the sound quality of satellite-transmitted music, even when it's at its best. Just as the MP3/4 format deletes part of the audible frequency range (to compact the signal) and will never sound as good as a .wav file, satellite transmission does that even more. Occasionally, you can hear a song over Sirius/XM that sounds like one of the stereophonic tracks got lost, but I don't notice it very often.
If it really bugs you, I suggest you simply listen to CDs. That way, you get the next best thing to a pristine analog album.
"AM and FM as a delivering mechanism isn't going to be the most important in cars anymore," said Thilo Koslowski, a vice president at technology research firm Gartner Inc."
Automakers tuning out traditional in-car radios (Detroit News)
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Just like cable TV.
Que the Tremeloes :-)
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S