"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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David wrote:
On 3 Aug 2005 06:53:07 -0700, wrote:
In that case, all they'd need to get rid of is the interface to the uP
and a mini-USB jack.
Steve
Not going to happen Fetish Boy. People want freedom of choice.
What do you have against a hi-fi feed of the BBC World Service 24
hours a day?
XM's feed of BBCWS is hardly Hi-Fi. In many cases it sounds more like a
low bit MP3 with shaped response to filter out the higher levelss of in
spectrum aliasing noise. More refined than 5975, lower noise for sure. And
more detailed, perhaps.
Talk channels are more bandwidth limited than the music channels on XM.
Most aren't stereo, either.
XM is a lot of things, but one thing it's never going to be is Hi-fi.
I once called up Siri's sales dept and asked them if they broadcast their
music in stereo. The first guy said yes, then when I said if he's sure and
can I have his name, he told me to hold on. He switched me to someone else.
This person said as far as he knows, it's in stereo but he can't be 100%
sure.
How can a company not know if their music signals are broadcast in stereo or
not? A poster in a group showed me pictures of Siri's receivers, and a few
said "stereo" on them so I guess it is in stereo. I don't know about XM. I
know at one time Siri had more sats in space then XM but they launched a new
sat like 4-6 months ago.
I won't pay for the service either. I can find all the music I want on FM or
on the net. Radio waves were meant to be free for listeners with commercials
supporting the station. To me, this sat radio business is a created
offspring of radio that has been hyped too much. But from many people who
have the service, they say they'll never go back to "old style FM" again.
I surely won't pay $13 or $15 a month for it. If it was like $3 a month, I'd
try it.
Lucky