2006-07-12 14:10:30 · 7 answers · asked by FLeA 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
This is a tough question. While I miss having XM and all of their wonderful stations, I don't miss their (lack of) customer service.
We spent almost a year of one problem after another with them. The final straw was when they started deducting monthly payments from our checking account without authorization just because at one time during the three years we were with them, I made a telephone payment.
2006-07-12 14:16:19 · answer #1 · answered by Angie P. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had SIRIUS till my one-year subscription ended while I was overseas. I came back to the States a few weeks ago for a couple of weeks and bought XM on a month-by-month basis. Once I come back to the States permanently in January, I plan on having both XM and SIRIUS. As a sports fan, I actually need both. SIRIUS carries NFL, NBA games and will carry NASCAR starting in 2007; while XM carries MLB (including ESPN Radio's coverage of MLB games during weekends and postseason), and NHL games, IRL racing, Fox Sports Radio, and Sporting News Radio (FSR and SNR is not available on SIRIUS). If you're a baseball fan and you have SIRIUS, ESPN Radio on SIRIUS will not carry its alternate feed for Major League Baseball at anytime, including Sunday Night Baseball, Division Series, League Championship Series, and World Series. Same goes with football fans who only have XM. They will not get any NFL games from Westwood One.
2006-07-19 12:58:35 · answer #2 · answered by Lorenzo V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have XM and I do a lot of traveling so it is worth it to me. Now they are starting to play a lot of commercials and that is getting annoying though!!!!
If they raise prices again it may not be worth it (I pods are so easy to download and bring to the car and are commercial free) But I am a talk radio junkie and XM satisfies that for me.
2006-07-12 21:15:33 · answer #3 · answered by ZIAGACITY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on your needs. They are both getting more appealing in recent years with some big-name celebrity additions, as well as the addition of some sports leagues. They didn't meet my needs, as I was looking for children's music and a books-on-tape type channel, so I'll probably wait until one of them gets successful enough to buy the other one out. If you could get all their channels on one system, I'd be first in line.
Incidently, the only two channels of "children's music" on XM when I checked it out were playing Britney Spears and Dire Straits "Money for Nothing," so I didn't have any interest. Um, Dire Straits - children's music? Huh???
2006-07-12 21:16:32 · answer #4 · answered by Neerdowellian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they, because you can listen to a lot of things wherever you want. I personally prefer Sirius, because it has more choices. I'm not sure how much they cost tho.
2006-07-12 21:16:02 · answer #5 · answered by iemagudspelur 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes youll get every station youll ever need but price is the limiting factor. its pretty expensive
2006-07-12 21:13:49 · answer #6 · answered by sPoCoKeT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know people that like it, but I will not pay for it.
2006-07-12 21:13:52 · answer #7 · answered by Norm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋