Are you Sirius?

[Shayne]

The music stations are commercial free.  The other stations as far as I can tell are not run by Sirius but are instead broadcasted by Sirius.

[Thorin]

The Kids Stuff station would advertise itself (not any other product, though) every fifteen or twenty minutes.  And yes, on a long drive (two hours plus) we would get repeats of songs sometimes.  Kids love repetition; it lets them learn the songs real good.

I'll bet you're loving the NFL channels, eh?

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[Shayne]

Yesterday I had to accompany my woman to shopping and dinner with her parents, i looked forward to the drive as I could check all the scores   Love it.  Damn cool machine.

[Mr. Analog]

Well, here it is two years down the road and I can finally see the tangible benefits to going Sirius...

I listen to a lot of music, but I've found that I'm in both a rut with local radio and more interested in listening to a good mix with no commercials.

I've looked at all the options, including the over the net streaming and after much consideration I will be heading down to an electronics store here at lunch to see if I can swing a deal or two.

[Lazybones]

I just listen to Digital internet music on my iPhone.
- I have a 6 GB data plain (may not be enough if you listen ALL day) which is more than enough for me to use it in the car
- There are iPhone/iPod docs for everything already (FM modulator / built into car / Alarm clocks /Stereo's)
- My personal music is already on the device
- If I had more personal music than can be stored there are ways to stream your music from home.
- Fits in my pocket and I can listen to it on the train to work (can't stream for underground areas)

[Mr. Analog]

Well, I have a decent mp3 player for commuting and I do sometimes listen to the radio during that time I'm just interested in the wealth of available content that I could be listening to while I'm drawing or working.

I have a pretty big mp3 collection and I'm building up a repository on Last.FM but where I run into trouble is the streaming parts. When I'm at work no streaming is allowed on the client network and at home I run into bandwidth quality issues with Tonnica playing pro TF2 and me wanting to listen to artifact-free music.

It finally makes sense for me to do!

[Lazybones]

Lets Break this down:

Cost of Hardware:
Sirius Stiletto 2 Portable Receiver (SL2TK1C) $279.99
iPhone 3G 8GB $199 on 3 year contract

Monthly Cost:
Phone Service + Sirius  $14.99 / mo month to month or $12.90 /mo on a 3 year term
iPhone Voice 400Min / Data 2GB $75 /mo

How much do you currently pay for your mobile phone?

I am sure there is special contact on Sirius but I can't see my self paying for Radio services. Maybe I just don't listen enough for it to matter.

Note that on a 6 GB plan I have my PEAK usage has been 750MB in a month. I could try running a radio stream all day at work to gather stats on it, however if you use WiFi you get around draining all your data.

[Mr. Analog]

Well I came back from the store and I couldn't find a model that suited my requirements, but what I did do was upgrade my mobile service.

[Lazybones]

but what I did do was upgrade my mobile service.

?

[Mr. Analog]

but what I did do was upgrade my mobile service.

?

Well, I was in the mall already, I had spare time, spare cash and a new plan offer waiting so I wandered up to yonder Telus store and finally upgraded.

I figure if it's going to take me a while to find the right radio that quest can go on the backburner while I got my hot little hands on a phone that wasn't hand-crafted by Alexander Graham Bell...

I suppose I'm all excited about it and put it in my comment there.

[Tonnica]

Mr. A is now ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US HTC Touch Pro owners. Hahaha I never thought I'd see the day when he'd forgo "simple is best" for a fancy-dancy Windows Mobile device.

He's got a pretty good data plan that's about $10 more than mine.

[Mr. Analog]

See now this is exactly what I want:
Tivoli's SIRIUS Table Radio

Next payday :-)

[Darren Dirt]

Mr. A is now ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US HTC Touch Pro owners.

Freaks.





Seriously though, the fact that it's running Windoze Mobeel = meh, but at least the popup keyboard allows a stylus or fingernail for clicking, not just fingertip touches (iPhone). I played around with Dionne's HTC last weekend, too many menus and of course (since it's a Microsoft OS) it makes default decisions on occasion that are contrary to what I would decide if MS didn't decide for me (I'll shut up now, I don't actually own the thing so on second thought forget my negativity, instead congrats Mr. A on moving into the 21st century )