iPod Wow!

[spakle]

I smell a troll, this guy has 3 posts, 2 of which start satelite radio threads and then he disapears.
baned imo

I only have three posts because I lost my email account and couldn't remember my password. Been a regular for almost five years now. No troll here.

Facts about Satellitle Radio:
1. Someone said 5 million subs by 2007. Fact: XM has over 6 mil/ Sirius 3mil. You might try 15 million subscribers by 2007.

2. The people that say barf about Sat Radio are the ones that have never tried it. Once you use it you'll probably never use regualr radio again.

3. Price. Yes its 13 clams a month. However, you get to choose between 160 channels of music/sports/news/talk/etc. Plus, when you drive from one place to another the channels never go away. Although you may or may not be able to do it, I had my portable player in use on the last flight I took.

Basically you get to listen to almost anything you want, at anytime, any place with out having to download/rip. Everything is live.

Now, whats so great about these units? Well, you get everything mentioned above, plus you can put your mp3's on it. Right now it looks like 512/1gb options. I'm sure that will expand in a big way over this year. Did I also mention that you can record the live streams of the stations to play back later if you'd like? Maybe you wanted to listen to that baseball/football/hockey game but were doing something else. Just set to record that channel and listen to it later. Think Tivo. As for the S50 from sirius. It doesn't let you listen while on the go. These do. Plus the S50 is pretty thick.

Oh, did I also mention you can pause/rr/ff live radio just like a tivo does?

You see, Satellite radio is a huge advancement in the way you listen to radio. For the people that are gripping about the price. Next time you listen to radio, count how many commericals you hear. Satellite doesn't have any on the music stations. Want to know instant traffic/weather for your city? Bam! Want to tune in to hear what the good lord has to say? Bam...instant jesus. Want to know the sports scores or stock quotes live? Just hit the button. You speak spanish/french? They have channels for you too. Espn, CNN, Foxnews, on and on and on.

Trust me fellas...once you use it, you'll never go back. The only reason I listen to my ipod is for audio books and storage. Go to www.xmradio.com or www.sirius.com and listen to the three day trial web streams they have. For the boys and girls across the pond, africa, asia, etc...go to www.worldspace.com.

Apple should be a part of this. On these units you can hit a button to mark the song. When you get home, hook unit to computer and purchase from Napster. My point is Apple should be the one playing the game with XM or Sirius.

Are you following me now?

 

[Stampyhead]

I have no interest in seeing radio reception in the iPod, be it sattelite or otherwise. I have long been dissatisfied with the radio as a medium, and now that I own an iPod the radios in my car and home are permanently silent. I'm happy for those who like sattelite radio and who use it, but I have no need for it myself.

 

[yg17]

Or am I missing something really exciting about it that makes it worth it ?

Missing a lot of things....

Uncensored. Commercial-free. Available coast-to-cost.

I have Sirius and it is well worth it. If Apple would team up with Sirius for a portable player, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

 

[dan-o-mac]

My father has this in his in his truck and I was not impressed. Yes they have a **** load of stations, but your basically stuck listening to music programmed and picked for you. No thanks, I'd rather listen to my own selection of music.

 

[Coca-Cola]

Imagine if you will...

Imagine if you will...

Steve "Oh and one more thing.... Today, Apple is launching it's very own satellite. You will be able to watch the launch in HD in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 lift off.

Oh and one more thing, did I mention it has a "lazer". And now we are going to hear from a Microsoft spokesperson about free versions of Office for every mac user untill the year 3000.

 

[spakle]

My father has this in his in his truck and I was not impressed. Yes they have a **** load of stations, but your basically stuck listening to music programmed and picked for you. No thanks, I'd rather listen to my own selection of music.

So how do you know about new music/artists if you only listen to what you have on your ipod?

I have over 3000 songs on my ipod. Listened to it straight for two years. Even with that many songs, things start to get stale. You have to have another means of finding new stuff.

There is no way you can't find a station or two that plays your type of style. I'm guessing that you just haven't found it while playing on your dads radio.

Also, lets just say you don't want to listen to the stations that much. The point of this thread is how the units are also MP3 players. You can still listen to all your stuff the way you like but have the option to explore a ton of other stuff.

 

[.Andy]

Missing a lot of things....

Uncensored. Commercial-free. Available coast-to-cost.

I have Sirius and it is well worth it. If Apple would team up with Sirius for a portable player, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

After reading these posts I'm still not convinced. You're three 'features' there are available on free-to-air ABC stations in Australia already......

As for no commercials on satellite I'm going to guess that goes the way of the dodo or is made up by product placement promotions once viewer numbers increase. CD quality's not really an issue for me either. The only time I listen to the radio these days is for talk/commentary on AM. So quality means squat as a feature. When/if it's available in Aus I might give it a go seeing as people seem to like it. But I'll stand by there being nothing groundbreaking to interest me or to make me want to rush out to get it.

 

[spakle]

After reading these posts I'm still not convinced....

The CD quality thing isn't true. They use AAC for compression and compress quit a bit. I'd say more FM quality than CD. Not sure of the exact bit rate they are using. They do this because the FCC in the USA only gave XM and Sirius 12.5mhz worth of bandwidth. Meaning, they can only play so many stations. The option is to have 60 CD quality channels or 160 as-good-as-fm quality channels. Not sure what World Spaces restrictions are though (doesn't look like they offer it in Australia anyway).

Commercials are not played on the music channels. Only talk/sports/entertainment. They do have station promos everyonce and awhile between songs but definitely is not a commerical. However, if SAT radio is bigger than regular radio some day, I do see that changing. It will be some time before that ever happens.

As for censorship: in the USA you have to keep the radio clean. That is a big difference between USA and rest of the world.

Anywho, it truely will blow you away if you ever get the chance to use it.

 

[adk]

When/if it's available in Aus I might give it a go seeing as people seem to like it.

It's sort of popular here because we don't have awesome free radio like yours here in the US. Man that would be nice.

 

[.Andy]

So how do you know about new music/artists if you only listen to what you have on your ipod?

I have over 3000 songs on my ipod. Listened to it straight for two years. Even with that many songs, things start to get stale. You have to have another means of finding new stuff.

Good point spakle. I'll agree some of the music I've bought in the last five years has come from the radio. I probably wouldn't have quite a bit if it weren't for it....

Though most of the music I've purchased lately comes from randomly reading reviews online (including recommendations from people here), hearing a CD in a coffee shop, soundtracks to commercials (Sony Bravia of note) and movies, recommendations from the iTMS, and CD's lent by friends. Radio has kind of become one of the last places I look for new music these days. Not really by choice, just because my habits have changed having my pod and due to my listening tastes.

Another man's Wow is another man's Wow too! Those are pretty cool as is the S50 from Sirius below. Now we have some intriguing choices for portable (wearable) satellite radio.

That S50 looks better. Although I think it's because it's basically a nano with the screen moved to the middle.....

 

[.Andy]

It's sort of popular here because we don't have awesome free radio like yours here in the US. Man that would be nice.

Don't you guys have any free to air stations or good community radio stations that you can listen to? In the absence of these I can definitely understand the attraction of an initiative like satellite then.

 

[spakle]

Don't you guys have any free to air stations or good community radio stations that you can listen to?

Nope. All radio is censored in the US.

 

[KKKL]

World Of Warcraft

 

[Chundles]

Missing a lot of things....

Uncensored. Commercial-free. Available coast-to-cost.

I have Sirius and it is well worth it. If Apple would team up with Sirius for a portable player, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Yeah, that's pretty standard here. The commercial channels are a bit over-commercialised but the government run ABC channels are available country-wide, commercial-free and uncensored.

It's just not that exciting really.

 

[Chundles]

World Of Warcraft

¿qué?

What about World of Warcraft?

 

[.Andy]

Yeah, that's pretty standard here. The commercial channels are a bit over-commercialised but the government run ABC channels are available country-wide, commercial-free and uncensored.

It's just not that exciting really.

Yeah after hearing all these posts I love my ABC even more now!

Listening to the fantastic uninterrupted commentary of the cricket now on 702 ABC local Sydney.

 

[neocell]

I guess I must concede that if you were a radio junkie and lived in the states, and had a bit of spare change satellite radio probably is attractive. I can pick up a few US broadcasts here and I must say American commercials are incredibly annoying (not like Canadian ones are much better, but you don't have to listen to the 20sec of speed legal talk after each one). But as I'm not a radio junkie and I don't live in the states I believe I'll be passing for now...

 

[Chundles]

Yeah after hearing all these posts I love my ABC even more now!

Listening to the fantastic uninterrupted commentary of the cricket now on 702 ABC local Sydney.

Wouldn't say "uninterrupted" BLOODY RAIN!!!

We could be in a bit of strife if the rain goes away quickly, Gibbs is smashing them all over the park - he is yet to score a single, all his runs have been in 2 or more, mostly boundaries. Time for Warnie and McGill I think.

 

[spakle]

I don't live in the states I believe I'll be passing for now...

XM and Sirius are in Canada as well. XM has three French channels if you speak the language.

 

[neocell]

XM and Sirius are in Canada as well. XM has three French channels if you speak the language.

I've seen a bunch of ads for Sirius recently but I think they're just signing people up right now, no actual service as of yet, at least that's what the ad looked like. No idea of XM, but I don't really care too much about it either

**EDIT**
checked the site I saw one ad, it appears that it's the hardware release that's yet to come

 

[.Andy]

Wouldn't say "uninterrupted" BLOODY RAIN!!!

We could be in a bit of strife if the rain goes away quickly, Gibbs is smashing them all over the park - he is yet to score a single, all his runs have been in 2 or more, mostly boundaries. Time for Warnie and McGill I think.

Agreed. I was hoping Gibbs would go quickly in the light rain - was not to be though. Liked the little interview with Parky they just had. Very entertaining .

Perhaps these satellite radio guys should give the australian ABC stations a go streamed on the web as a free alternative .

 

[betbest1]

¿qué?

What about World of Warcraft?

WoW is a common abbreviation for World of Warcraft.

 

[yg17]

I've seen a bunch of ads for Sirius recently but I think they're just signing people up right now, no actual service as of yet, at least that's what the ad looked like. No idea of XM, but I don't really care too much about it either

**EDIT**
checked the site I saw one ad, it appears that it's the hardware release that's yet to come

Sirius (and XM I think) has been active and selling receivers in Canada for about a month now. After the holiday season, receivers are tough to find though.

People in Canada have had Sirius and XM for ages now despite the lack of official service up there. All you needed to do before is buy a radio (cross the border if you're close, order online, ect) and activate with a US address. Any address...it could be real or made up.

 

[Chundles]

WoW is a common abbreviation for World of Warcraft.

Yeah, I know. But what does that have to do with this thread? The title is "Wow" not "WoW," it's in the iPod and iTunes section and makes no mention of any sort of computer game.

On the other hand, the covers are coming off at the SCG, don't need a fancy satellite to tell me that, I've got analogue free-to-air TV, free-to-air radio and free (cause I'm currently visiting my folks) internet streaming.

Hope the SAfricans go cheaply after lunch.

 

[dan-o-mac]

So how do you know about new music/artists if you only listen to what you have on your ipod?

I have over 3000 songs on my ipod. Listened to it straight for two years. Even with that many songs, things start to get stale. You have to have another means of finding new stuff.

There is no way you can't find a station or two that plays your type of style. I'm guessing that you just haven't found it while playing on your dads radio.

Also, lets just say you don't want to listen to the stations that much. The point of this thread is how the units are also MP3 players. You can still listen to all your stuff the way you like but have the option to explore a ton of other stuff.

I find alot of new artist by reading magazines and internet radio streams which are free and could be ripped into my ipod. I'm not saying it's not a good product, it's just not for me.