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Variety= good. Depth=??? Posted by IrieTom [Email] (#1032) [Profile/Gallery] (more from IrieTom) on Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:07:08 In Reply to: i'm also looking at it, dave n, Sun, 9 Jun 2002 21:01:51 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
My company promoted XM radio over the winter, and I got to check out the goods while I wired up sound systems for this. The actual satellite link works quite good, as long as the antenna can get a fairly good "window" to the sky- it can get reception through the roof of a wood-framed house, but not through a floor and a roof.
The 100 channels are subdivisions of 15 radio formats- Decades (oldies a la '50s, '60s, etc), Hits, Talk & Variety, Comedy, Sports, News, Kids, Dance, Classical, World, Rock, Jazz & Blues, Latin, Urban, and Country. Some are commercial-free, some are not.
Like cable TV, even with all of those choices it can be difficult to find anything worth paying your attention. I listened to the Reggae channel for a while ("The Joint"- nice name...) and found that most of the programming was Bob Marley, Burning Spear, and Sly & Robbie stuff from RykoDisk compilations of the RAS label. I was hoping to be exposed to new stuff, and instead I kept hearing the same old familiar songs...
I started to play the game of "guess the format" by flipping to a station at random and seeing how many songs it took to guess exactly which channel was playing. If you enjoy your local "dinosaur rock" station, there's an XM one just like it which plays Led Zeppelin, Peter Frampton, and Lynyrd Skynyrd ad nauseum.
For now, I'm just going to have to keep bringing CDs along with me for musical entertainment.
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