Comments on: GM makes XM satellite radio standard on all 2008 Buick, Hummer and Saab models

By: rodeo40

rodeo40 — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:53:26 +0000

Bad choice…they should have left it as a dealer installed option offering XM AND Sirius. Maybe the proposed merger of XM and Sirius will make this irrelevant.

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:27:02 +0000

audiophile!

By: golf4me

golf4me — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:13:05 +0000

Sirius better? Maybe if like the channel lineup better, otherwise it’s not. It uses an inferior compression algorithim to XM and the sound quality is noticeably poorer, especially in portable devices such as auto receivers. Every Sirius I’ve heard in the car sounds no better than AM Stereo, though I do wish XM had the NFL! All this is mute, however, as they will be merging soon anyway.

For those of you who “don’t want” XM in your car, then simply don’t sign up after the free months. Every car comes with features you probably don’t want or don’t use, don’t condemn GM for making a popular feature standard. Hell, if I lived in Alaska, I wouldn’t want the added weight and complexity of A/C, but I am not going to condemn every automaker that makes it standard. Otherwise, I’d be left with only the Kia Rio! (I know there are others, but it’s just to make a point)

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:57:46 +0000

Doug: the page 2 function hasn’t worked for a while.

maximus: savage and The Herd are the only good things on AM (Tom L. is on FM here).

By: RicardoHead

RicardoHead — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:51:54 +0000

I prefer MP3 and CDs. HD radio is okay, and so is AM as well as FM. If I really needed to pay for radio, the developing offerings from Slacker.com seem to be far preferable to the offerings of Siri or XM. Slacker is working on ways to let you design your own stations and artists they play rather than take the fixed stations some lame Siri/XM marketer rams up your rear. Can’t remember which rental or which provider, but I was struggling thru their 100-some-odd satrad stations and ended up listening to Greg Brady playing his favorite 70′s songs before I shut the crap off and tuned into free radio. Believe me, hearing advertisements on free radio is far preferable to hearing Greg Brady try to be cool.

By: maximus

maximus — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:26:58 +0000

i prefer AM radio and I’m not kidding.

By: SubieDoug

SubieDoug — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:13:16 +0000

Why is the page 2 function on LLN not working ????? — Get Real

Good question. I used their wonderful “contact us” form over a week ago asking the same thing. To date, no answer, nothing, and you always get the cryptic server error trying to access page two. It sucks.

By: Get Real

Get Real — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:57:38 +0000

Why is the page 2 function on LLN not working ?????

By: imtrevonte

imtrevonte — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:10:01 +0000

Well XM is the biggest sat rad provider…more subscribers and more channels. Howard is washed up, he went for the paycheck and left all of his listeners behind…only a very small percentage followed him. Besides, XM and Sirius will be merging, so people can have both.

By: 1c3d0g

1c3d0g — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:53:34 +0000

I’d prefer HD Radio, but OK.

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:23:38 +0000

Skeetir. jackjim, not jimjack. jimjack is a STUPID handle!
I’m not exactly a Savage fan. mostly i listen so I can say alout “savage you don’t know what the F— you’re talking about.”
But he does have some good points at times.

R-head: Cable sucks, but in my exurb, you can’t get TV with just an antanna.

By: RicardoHead

RicardoHead — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:48:46 +0000

Bryce, I wont conform. I’ve had satrad in rentals – it sucks. My company pays for it if we want it, but nobody takes it because it sucks.

Of course people pay for cable TV and it sucks too. I don’t – because it sucks.

By: Skeeter

Skeeter — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:16:07 +0000

First no manual in the G8, now the inferior satellite!?

BTW jimjack a fan of savage? Can’t say I didn’t see that one coming. Language, borders and culture……..what a joke.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:32:19 +0000

RicardoHead, satellite radio is the wave of the future. Your sentiments are not unique. They were expressed more than twenty years ago at the onset of cable TV. You’ll conform. Besides, satellite radio is awesome. You’ll realize how much time DJs and commercials take otherwise.

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:26:56 +0000

rav: i get no redhead

By: Madcapp

Madcapp — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:26:42 +0000

Wrong choice, Sirius is better.

By: Blakkarr

Blakkarr — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:12:54 +0000

okay.

By: A4

A4 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:11:31 +0000

i got a university of phoenix ad but theres no chick in it

By: CTS DRIVER

CTS DRIVER — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:48:25 +0000

oh yeah injuraiv i wouldnt mind that lipstick on my dipstick.

By: RicardoHead

RicardoHead — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:29:25 +0000

I am not thrilled with this. I don’t want satrad, I don’t like satrad, and I don’t want to pay for the capability to be in my vehicle. For me, this is a turnoff to GM.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:21:58 +0000

injunraiv, I was thinking the same thing the other day.

By: injunraiv

injunraiv — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:16:03 +0000

Oh, and Japanese Satellite radio is better…

By: injunraiv

injunraiv — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:15:02 +0000

Anyone else getting the University of Phoenix ads? That redhead is hot!

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:11:12 +0000

Howard has jumped the shark.

By: autonut

autonut — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:08:19 +0000

This site is acting up. I placed a comment it disappeared and ended up on Audi forum. Anyway, I want Sirius to listen to Howard.

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:07:12 +0000

As if I needed another excuse.
I already get Tom L. and Savage on the radio, but this is a kicker.

By: injunraiv

injunraiv — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:05:31 +0000

XM FTW!