itmanagement.earthweb.com — I hate to say it, but somebody has to: Satellite radio is dead. The newly merged Sirius XM Radio is already living on borrowed time -- and borrowed money -- and simply cannot survive. Satellite radio is nothing more than an insanely expensive, limited, proprietary content delivery system that now competes with the Internet itself. It's over.
Nov 19, 2008 View in Crawl 4
paintgrlNov 20, 2008
I love my Sirius and listen to it more then I watch T.V. I use the radio and the computer to access it. I don't think it will die since it delivers better content then any other radio/web based entertainment I have found. I am willing to pay just to get un-censored adult material.
jigorokanoNov 20, 2008
Is it just what I have listened to or is the quality not actually that good?I hooked up a guy's receiver to his home stereo and what I heard was maybe slightly better than FM radio and nowhere near the quality of a good MP3 or CD.The bit rate sounded fairly low and not nearly as good as HD-FM, which will eventually be up to 300 kbit/s per station... assuming it ever takes over.
wontstoptalkingNov 20, 2008
♫ ♪Internet killed the satellite radio star.... ♪♫
mikelganNov 21, 2008Submitter
It seems extra expensive now that you've got every song in the universe on your media player or cell phone in the same car where you're paying through the nose to listen to those same songs, but without any control over when they play. It's over, dude.
Closed AccountNov 22, 2008
Although it's very likely what we know of as Sirius XM is dead, the existing technology that delivers audio product is something that is not going to go away.... that will continue in some way, probably in a way we don't know of yet (maybe as a new way for space communication, for example).