ReVeLaTeD
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join:2001-11-10
San Diego, CA
| SIRIUS customer
And I found SIRIUS to be mildly entertaining. I still listen to it from time to time, mostly the jazz stations, but the "wow" factor has long worn off to the point that I don't feel inclined (in these times of insane gas prices) to pay the other $100 to keep the service. I'm still debating that.
I chose SIRIUS over XM because quite frankly, SIRIUS had better looking devices. I know that's pretty fickle, but that's the nuts and bolts of it. I can't stand ugly looking hardware, and XM's all look horrible to me. Music selection seemed mostly comparable.
I'm one of the people who doesn't listen to channels that are so selective as to be considered "minority". Different languages - we're in the US, I listen to stuff in English. Don't listen to Stern, though I might change to Bubba every now and then.
SIRIUS' big negative is the bridge effect; I can't stand it. Because we're so freeway heavy out here, every on-ramp and major street has at least one bridge, and because we don't know how to coordinate traffic lights properly, it means more often than not, you'll be forced to stop right under a bridge - cutting out the signal. Drives me nuts, especially since the recorder feature does not actually tie back to the broadcast at any server level (in other words, you'll listen to a song for 3 minutes, it cuts out under a bridge, when you get through, the song is cut too instead of just retrieving the full song from a server source).
I'm all for the merger IF they can fix the bridge issue and keep the type of variety I get now. |
BioGeek
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join:2007-08-25
West Orange, NJ
 ·Verizon FIOS
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| Interestingly, I pass a strange intersection on my way to work. There is no bridge, no special trees or buildings, yet I loose signal on a very specific part of the street, coming to the light. I don't get it, some strange electromagnetic thingamajiggy under the road screwing me up. |
