For those considering XM or Sirius radio
 

Here is a cool comparison site that may help you.

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*hope this isn't a repost

BTW XM just announced that they are going commerical-free, so they are even more competitive!!

The thing I really wish they would do is play forgein music. In my case, the middle eastern, arabic music genre. I am sure other would like to hear chinese, french, english, etc...music and I am wondering when are there going to be stations for such.

Where did you see that? It wasn't in the page you linked to.

sirrius is going to be adding streaming video within another year or so. :D

Not to mention we got the pamela anderson show

They announced it at the Consumer electronics show

Its on their website

Nice comparison site Travis!

one thing to point out though... Both companies state "digital quality sound" (not "CD-Quality" as the comparison chart says) but folks shouldn't read too much into that.

NEITHER service is actually pushing 44.1khz/16bit audio (which is CD) - but the quality is much better than FM, and is less compressed overall.

They're both good... I wouldn't be without sat radio these days.

Great info, Travis. Now we have another excuse for speeding: "But Officer, I was listening to the Playboy channel on my new XM radio and got distracted when she said...".

BTW, have you noticed what's happened to their stock prices recently? A bit volatile, but until last week up about 40% over the past couple of months. Wall Street really likes the subscription service model.

For the major metro areas, the 24/7 traffic report channel is worth the subscruption price alone. The local traffic reports are just useless, always late, inaccurate, and mainly a commercial.