Woot XM alert

[OTD]

If you've been on the fence about getting XM, check out tonight's Woot--XM Sky-Fi boombox, $49.

No, I don't work for Woot or XM, but both are among the great things about the 21st century.

 

[imjustagirl2]

There's a woot thread, looser!

 

[OTD]

There's a woot thread, looser!

I know, but I wanted this separate, kind of a combo XM/Woot thread. But if a moddy wants to merge it, I'll suffer in silence.

 

[Cadet]

How much is an XM subscription?

 

[BYH]

There's a woot thread, looser!

I saw you posted on this thread and I figured you'd be giving your XM stuff away.

IJAG's a commie *******. She doesn't like XM. She hates America.

 

[Diabeetus]

looser!

Your spelling is shameful

 

[OTD]

How much is an XM subscription?

It's about $12 a month, less if you pay a couple years in advance

 

[imjustagirl2]

There's a woot thread, looser!

I saw you posted on this thread and I figured you'd be giving your XM stuff away.

IJAG's a commie *******. She doesn't like XM. She hates America.

I already offered to give it to Mystery Meat a couple months back. He never got back to me.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

How much is a subscription?

I've always hesitated on XM, because why pay for satellite radio when I get radio for free ... but this might entice me to get it.

$12.95 a month.

I get TV free, too... but I still pay for cable, because free TV sucks.

Same theory applies. I've had XM for (I think) 2 years now, and will never listen to terrestrial radio again.

 

[michael_badley]

Totally just broke my Woot cherry. XM is an amazing thing, especially if you drive often. You will never find a better deal than this.

 

[OTD]

A tape deck converter? I can't use that. Argh.

It has an FM modulator--plays through your FM radio

 

[Mystery_Meat]

There's a woot thread, looser!

I saw you posted on this thread and I figured you'd be giving your XM stuff away.

IJAG's a commie *******. She doesn't like XM. She hates America.

I already offered to give it to Mystery Meat a couple months back. He never got back to me.

I totally wanted it! But I'm never where I need to be to get it. And now I've gone and bought one! But my mom wants one because the radio stations back home don't play enough Metallica.

 

[Write-brained]

I never understood pay radio. Gotta be the stupidest thing on the planet. Does not even compare to listening to my Mp3 player in the car.

Put it this way. Let's imagine a world where all radio programming cost money, otherwise you don't get it. And let's say someone creates this system where you can listen to radio for free. All you have to do is put up with some commercials once in a while. Which one would you choose?

Cable TV is different. Free TV is dumbed down for the masses with very few movies.

 

[Write-brained]

Cable TV is different. Free TV is dumbed down for the masses with very few movies.

Free radio sucks ass. I almost never listen to it anymore.

Me neither, now that I can hook up my mp3 player to my car radio. I'll take that over satellite any day ...

in my limited experience, I didn't find pay radio to be much better than regular radio ... just more channels to search for something I wanted to hear and no Tivo to record something good that might be coming on a channel I just skipped over ...

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Put it this way. Let's imagine a world where all radio programming cost money, otherwise you don't get it. And let's say someone creates this system where you can listen to radio for free. All you have to do is put up with some commercials once in a while. Which one would you choose?

And let's imagine that all of the music stations on that free radio are absolutely ****ing awful and play 15 minutes of commercials every hour. Oh, and your reception won't be any good, and if you drive into a rural area all you get is Jesus or mariachi music.

I'll pay gladly, thanks.

 

[wickedwritah]

I never understood pay radio. Gotta be the stupidest thing on the planet. Does not even compare to listening to my Mp3 player in the car.

Put it this way. Let's imagine a world where all radio programming cost money, otherwise you don't get it. And let's say someone creates this system where you can listen to radio for free. All you have to do is put up with some commercials once in a while. Which one would you choose?

Cable TV is different. Free TV is dumbed down for the masses with very few movies.

Write-brained, you're good people, but you need to put down the crackpipe.

Free TV dumbed down for the masses? It wasn't the over-the-air network crowd that brought us Paris' trainwreck life, including tonight's Larry King schlock.

Terrestrial radio definitely has taken a dumbed-down approach. Luckily I live in a market where we have a station that takes some chances on music. I moved here from a BFE outpost that didn't even have its own modern rock station, and it was a pain to haul one in from 40 miles away -- a station that fed a steady diet of craptastic metal nearly 24/7.

Just like cable can have Skinomax and the classic movies channel, XM can have its own NPR-style network and meathead shock jocks. That being said, if I were gonna get any satellite provider, it'd be Sirius, solely for Stern.

(And PC, satellite reception in rural areas ain't great shakes, either, though there's more of a chance you'll find non-crap on the radio than if you simply listened to the three stations in Hillbilly, USA.)

 

[wickedwritah]

in my limited experience, I didn't find pay radio to be much better than regular radio ... just more channels to search for something I wanted to hear and no Tivo to record something good that might be coming on a channel I just skipped over ...

I think Sirius has a device where you can do just that, then load it into your iPod.

 

[Write-brained]

One word, Wicked. TiVo. If not for TiVo I wouldn't watch any ****ing TV. Until radio can give me exactly what I want when I want it, I ain't paying for it.

 

[Write-brained]

in my limited experience, I didn't find pay radio to be much better than regular radio ... just more channels to search for something I wanted to hear and no Tivo to record something good that might be coming on a channel I just skipped over ...

I think Sirius has a device where you can do just that, then load it into your iPod.

Still much easier just to download from my computer. Stern's not worth the hassle.

 

[wickedwritah]

Still much easier just to download from my computer. Stern's not worth the hassle.

Sirius also has the NFL and NASCAR. XM has MLB. There are plenty of times I might wanna listen to the game on the way home from the office, even if it's through one of those devices on a delay.