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Old Jan 25, 2002
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anybody have that satallite radio yet, is it worth it , what are the leaders in it now, my Hu supports it but i haven't heard anybody talk about it yet
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ehh supposedly 70% of it is commercial free...

you can listen in onto a bunch of tv channels too... espn, msnbc, foxnews... lots others...

the only bad thing is that you pay a monthly fee...
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New Techniology Scares me... Costs way more than it's worth for the moment.. and it 's still very limited... Give it 2 more years to catch on and let prices drop drastically.

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It's like Cable TV for cars... Why watch cable when you have VHS and DVD's..(or in this case CD's huh?? huh????

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XM radio is sweet. I highly recommend it! Sound quality is excellent and the choice of stations is more than you would ever need. It is very much worth the $10 a month. I hardly listened to the radio before because there is so much garbage being played, but XM makes it a blast now.

Limited? Check out the programming... XM Programming
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It kicks ***, the programming, and the sound quality are great. The only thing that sucks is the ant, it kind of sticks out, especially if you have the glass mount, nothing like a big ***** hanging off your back window.
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Old Jan 26, 2002
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So u have it slammed?? if so do u have any pics of it, like standing out or whatever
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I have the roof mount ant and it isn't too bad, I put it in the middle of the roof and ran the wire through the sunroof, turned out real nice actually, I'll try and take a pic.
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XM is the ish. The only thing I didn't like were the commercials. I think it should be completely commercial free then it would be even better. Still, getting CD quality music where ever is cool.
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mine should be here tomorrow. i got the glass mount atenna. I also have an Alpine XM ready radio.
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What does the antenna look like? Can't you just hook it up to the stock antenna?
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nope, totally diff. the glass mount looks like the old car cell phone antenas and the other one is low profile and looks like a shark fin.


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That kinda sucks. I wonder why they did it this way? Maybe that picks up certain frequencies that the stock one isn't capable of picking up? Hum... I was interested in satellite radio, but if you have to have this kind of antenna in your car then screw it. I'm sticking to an in-car mp3/mod player with touch-screen LCD and a player like Sonique with all the little effects going on while you drive. [IMG]i/expressions/beer_yum.gif[/IMG]
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