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| j3ff |
Can we keep this in the lounge so we can get alot of votes at least for a day?
If enough people are not getting sirius right now because of no truely portable tuner, I'm hoping I can send the poll over to someone at sirius backstage so they will notice it.
I for one am not getting it untill I can get something truely portable. I just have to have one seeing as how I dont know which car I will be in all day, I want it at the gym, in school, at work, out on the water.
Are any of you with me on not buying till one comes out?
Even if Howard gets on the air at sirius, and they dont have one I'm just gonna have to go download the show each night and listen a day later on my mp3 player
Plz say no or yes, I dont have the power to make a poll apparently. |
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| bodaver32 |
I am in the same boat as you.
YES. |
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| fahcue |
| Wouldnt the signal blow inside? I can see it not sucking if your going for a walk or in the car (maybe) but i cant see it getting any reception inside, unless of course somehow the earbud wire also acts as an antena of some shit. |
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| Lerxst |
I really do want a portable one a can use at work,home,car.
I can't afford to buy one for each.
Now I will get one by January however, i just don't know which one yet. |
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| fatboy |
I'm considering recording the show via Sirius onto my computer, then making it into an MP3 and listening to it the next day on my iPod. UNLESS they repeat the whole show later in the day.
I don't see a Walkman type Sirius receiver as being all that practical or affordable at this point. Which is unfortunate, I listen to a Walkman type unit now for FM reception. |
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| j3ff |
Quote: Originally posted by fahcue
Wouldnt the signal blow inside? I can see it not sucking if your going for a walk or in the car (maybe) but i cant see it getting any reception inside, unless of course somehow the earbud wire also acts as an antena of some shit. |
IT depends where you are.
If you are in range of a repeater it doesn't matter.
Everywhere I go I am in range of a repeater, so I'm good.
I know this beacuse I used to have sirius and it worked fine in the mall parking garages, and other places it wouldnt if I was relying on the sky - one is the George Washington Bridge Lower level. |
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| DDV |
im dying for a portable to come out but if it doesnt by the time howard goes to eh eh eh im gonan get something..
does sirius have any home receiver u can plgu headphones into? |
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| RayK |
I'd really like a walkman type myself, but I'll get something when Howard switches over. A reliable walkman will cause me to drop the car/house unit and just sub the walkman.
I have no use for more than one sub. |
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| Djarum |
I have a el-cheapo receiver right now.
I am not going to spend any real money on one until a truely portable one does come out.
Sirius desparately needs to get a true portable soon. The S50 is a cool gadget, but they can't be lying to customers saying it is a portable.
This lack is the only thing that is making Sirius to look worse than XM. |
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| nicksgt |
| doesnt xm have a portable unit like that? if they do i cant see why sirius doesnt do it too |
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| schroeder |
I'm with all of you guys.
The ONLY reason I am holding off is the lack of a walkman-type unit.
Doesn't XM already have this in place? Seems like a no-brainer to me to offer this to Sirius customers. |
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| anthonycomedian |
XM technically has a portable receiever, but have you ready any reviews on it?
Sure.. it's a portable receiver, but it works for shit... and you have to wear antenna headphones. It's going to be a while before any company actually comes out with something that is portable and actually works like people want it to... |
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| DrewsDaddy |
Quote: Originally posted by schroeder
I'm with all of you guys.
The ONLY reason I am holding off is the lack of a walkman-type unit.
Doesn't XM already have this in place? Seems like a no-brainer to me to offer this to Sirius customers. |
XM actually has 3 different portable units and more due out this Christmas. I own the XM MyFI and it works great indoors, outside, and in the car. The technology is there, but it's Sirius' manufacturers that are dropping the ball on this one. Xact is the only company TRYING to create a portable and they are failing miserably. Sirius needs the bigger companies like Audiovox or Blaupunkt to get behind the idea of a portable reciever. This is the only way that it will come to fruition. |
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| Djarum |
| XM has much better hardware, and Sirius has the best content. This is saddly the way it looks it will stay for awhile. |
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| DrewsDaddy |
Quote: Originally posted by anthonycomedian
XM technically has a portable receiever, but have you ready any reviews on it?
Sure.. it's a portable receiver, but it works for shit... and you have to wear antenna headphones. It's going to be a while before any company actually comes out with something that is portable and actually works like people want it to... |
dude, you have no idea what you are talking about! I own the MyFI and it has a built in antennae. The unit works great. I lay in bed listening to it and it's awesome. They recently put out add on headphones with built in antennae, but this is only needed in the fringe areas of service. Do some research before you start making statements that can easily be dismissed. :rolleyes: |
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| The Butler |
Quote: Originally posted by Lerxst
I really do want a portable one a can use at work,home,car.
I can't afford to buy one for each.
Now I will get one by January however, i just don't know which one yet. |
I'm in the same boat, although I doubt I'll be able to listen at work (interior office). I'm not too worried about the car yet as I only have a 20 minute commute and am likely to get a different car in 6 months. I think I'm going with one of the plug and play models (sportster) and a home docking port. I live in an area that says point the antenna east, and my stereo is right under an east facing window. Hopefully I won't need an outside antenna, not into punching holes through walls. |
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| jazzaugie |
I've always thought that the technology will be kickass in about five years from now. The stuff Sirius has out on the market works ok, but it's far from perfect.
Once they've improved reception (especially indoors) and come out with compact, portable receivers, satellite radio will really be awesome. As it is now, it's just good, I'd say. |
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| Dr. Fong |
| So can anyone tell me if Stern's channels will be streaming or not? I've searched and searched and talked to people at Sirius and I can't get a definite answer. |
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| Hugomarink |
| I'm holding off because they don't have a unit that records. I want to be able to record the whole show and play it back later. I know they have one model that records like 44 minutes, but that's bullshit. What good is 44 minutes? Of course if the Stern show is repeated throughout the day on Sirius then the recording feature doesn't matter very much. But they haven't provided any information about that either. I'll probably wait right up until Howard goes live on Sirius before I pick up a satellite radio. |
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| DrewsDaddy |
Quote: Originally posted by Dr. Fong
So can anyone tell me if Stern's channels will be streaming or not? I've searched and searched and talked to people at Sirius and I can't get a definite answer. |
No one knows. Stern says it's up to Sirius, and Sirius says it's up to Stern. No one will own up and say yes or no. |
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| Dr. Fong |
Quote: Originally posted by DrewsDaddy
No one knows. Stern says it's up to Sirius, and Sirius says it's up to Stern. No one will own up and say yes or no. |
That's the biggest thing holding me up from buying it. I work in front of a computer all day in an office where I can't get reception for a satellite unit. I only have like a 10 minute commute to work, so I don't spend a lot of time in my car. However, if I knew I could stream Stern's channels I'd go get Sirius today. |
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| Tom from T.O. |
They are supposed to launch in Canada in mid-December, no offical word if Stern will be on. No Stern, I don't buy it and get a sub thru the U.S.. My guy here who sells the Sirius radio says Stern will be on in Canada but I don't know yet.
I think alot of people wait for 2 reasons:
1. They want the latest unit and didn't want to buy a unit and then have their buddy tell them 4 months later, "Ha, ha, I bought a better, newer model than you." I can't walk into the dressing room of my hockey team and have some bastard tell me he just trumped me by buying a better unit.
2. We will procrastinate until the last minute. |
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| Morning Wood |
i'm not saying it's preventing me from getting one, but if a portable player existed i might have gotten one already.
so far i don't like the retrofit solutions for the car, and i do not want to buy a new in dash player, since i don't spend a huge amount of time in my car. |
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| Mutt |
| the closest they have is that S50 |
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| anthonycomedian |
Quote: Originally posted by DrewsDaddy
dude, you have no idea what you are talking about! I own the MyFI and it has a built in antennae. The unit works great. I lay in bed listening to it and it's awesome. They recently put out add on headphones with built in antennae, but this is only needed in the fringe areas of service. Do some research before you start making statements that can easily be dismissed. :rolleyes: |
You can suck on my balls...
You live in Washington DC, which is XM headquarters, only a stupid company would come out with something that doesn't work in their home city. of course it's going to work.. and it'll work in most of the large cities but like all the reviews said... it doesn't work well in suburbs and if it does work, that's because you hooked up an external antenna... it works in big cities, but sucks everywhere else...
Take in to thought that everyone that subscribes to satellite radio doesn't live in a large city with a million repeaters all over the place... now how portable is it? |
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| Hugomarink |
Quote: Originally posted by anthonycomedian
You can suck on my balls...
You live in Washington DC, which is XM headquarters, only a stupid company would come out with something that doesn't work in their home city. of course it's going to work.. and it'll work in most of the large cities but like all the reviews said... it doesn't work well in suburbs and if it does work, that's because you hooked up an external antenna... it works in big cities, but sucks everywhere else...
Take in to thought that everyone that subscribes to satellite radio doesn't live in a large city with a million repeaters all over the place... now how portable is it? |
Some great insults going around today! |
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| Timmy |
| What? They dont have a poratable version like XM??? What the dillio? How am I supposed to listen at work and in the car. |
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| cablguy104 |
Quote: Originally posted by Tom from T.O.
They are supposed to launch in Canada in mid-December, no offical word if Stern will be on. No Stern, I don't buy it and get a sub thru the U.S.. My guy here who sells the Sirius radio says Stern will be on in Canada but I don't know yet. |
From the Toronto Star.......
"But it gets worse. Sirius Canada, for example, will have about 40 fewer stations than its U.S. counterpart. And-shockingly-it appears as though the poster boy for satellite radio, Howard Stern, will be AWOL. "We wouldn't run a censored version of Howard Stern-we'd either carry it or not carry it. My inkling is we probably won't," notes Gary Slaight, president and CEO of Standard Broadcasting (Standard Broadcasting and the CBC are the Canadian licencees behind Sirius Canada.) "I would imagine, given what we live with in this country with the (Canadian Broadcast) Standards Council, that if we are only going to be running 80 channels, Howard Stern will not be one of them."
So there is your answer. Find yourself an American address.
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| Timmy |
| How does the sattlite know the difference tween Canada and the US??? Can you import a US reciever and get the shit in Canada? |
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| bige |
| I need a car unit that I dont have to plug into the cigarette lighter since my work truck doesnt have one. |
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| Jim Jones |
The fact that Sirius is so behind XM on the hardware is fucking lame. How hard is it to get a walkman type of thing out there by now?
I'm waiting on a walkman also. |
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| Franky Pants |
Quote: Originally posted by DrewsDaddy
dude, you have no idea what you are talking about! I own the MyFI and it has a built in antennae. The unit works great. I lay in bed listening to it and it's awesome. They recently put out add on headphones with built in antennae, but this is only needed in the fringe areas of service. Do some research before you start making statements that can easily be dismissed. :rolleyes: |
You probably live in one of the major cities where the MyFI is able to pick up a signal and even in those areas it's reception is at best adequate. For the rest of us that don't live in a big city the MyFI will most likely not deliver. This problem has been pointed out in reviews of the MyFI and by many users on message boards. Until there is a true portable that doesn't require headphones that make the user look like a tool and that can work everywhere I'm personally not interested. |
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| howard100 |
| We have a new walkman out and more on the way! |
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| Bullitt |
| I'm waiting for a Walkman too. I don't care how much it costs, as long as I can pick up a signal in the building where I work. I can't run an antenna to a window because of my location. I work with about 12 people who listen regularly, only one of them has purchased a Sirius radio. If they come out with a walkman, I'm sure all of us would buy it. |
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| DrewsDaddy |
Quote: Originally posted by Franky Pants
You probably live in one of the major cities where the MyFI is able to pick up a signal and even in those areas it's reception is at best adequate. For the rest of us that don't live in a big city the MyFI will most likely not deliver. This problem has been pointed out in reviews of the MyFI and by many users on message boards. Until there is a true portable that doesn't require headphones that make the user look like a tool and that can work everywhere I'm personally not interested. |
Let me try this again. First of all it doesn't require the headphones. The antenna eis built in. It doesn't even come with the special antennae headphones. As for where I live, I live in farm country. 3 Hours south of any major city. Like I said, do some research before making statements based on assumptions. :rolleyes: |
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| mike-howardfan |
Quote: Originally posted by howard100
We have a new walkman out and more on the way! |
We? |
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| The Brandon |
The reason I haven't subscribed is I would likely get a lifetime sub, and I heard that the lifetime sub is limited to your reciever. So if you upgrade or it gets broken, your money goes down the fucking drain.
If I spend $500 or whatever for a lifetime sub from a company that tells me when my reciever breaks that I have to buy another sub, thats a company I honestly don't want to do business with. |
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| blumpkin36 |
| I take the bus to work and then sit in an office all day.. i need a walkman. |
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| milkman59 |
Quote: Originally posted by j3ff
Can we keep this in the lounge so we can get alot of votes at least for a day?
If enough people are not getting sirius right now because of no truely portable tuner, I'm hoping I can send the poll over to someone at sirius backstage so they will notice it.
I for one am not getting it untill I can get something truely portable. I just have to have one seeing as how I dont know which car I will be in all day, I want it at the gym, in school, at work, out on the water.
Are any of you with me on not buying till one comes out?
Even if Howard gets on the air at sirius, and they dont have one I'm just gonna have to go download the show each night and listen a day later on my mp3 player
Plz say no or yes, I dont have the power to make a poll apparently. |
I'm going to have to wait. It just doesn't make sense for me because I'm normally on the run in the mornings and I need something I can strap on my belt and plug in the headphones. For now, I'm only interested in Sirius for Howard and it wouldn't make any sense to have a home setup or car setup because I'm in neither place when he's on and I'm not interested in listening to any replays later in the day. |
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| Franky Pants |
Quote: Originally posted by DrewsDaddy
Let me try this again. First of all it doesn't require the headphones. The antenna eis built in. It doesn't even come with the special antennae headphones. As for where I live, I live in farm country. 3 Hours south of any major city. Like I said, do some research before making statements based on assumptions. :rolleyes: |
I did do my research. The following is from CNET's review of the MyFi:
There are two ways to listen to music and other XM programming on the MyFi. In Direct mode, you tune in to the XM satellite service in real time as you normally would. Obviously, this requires that you get satellite reception, which means you have to either have a fairly unimpeded view of the sky or be in an area where XM has placed a lot of repeaters --as is the case here in New York City, where we did most of our testing.
You're obviously very happy with your Myfi and that's great but there are many people disappointed with it. I want a device that will work not just outdoors but also in places like the building I work in, the gym, or anywhere in my house. You should consider yourself lucky if your device works in your bedroom (I assume without hanging your arm out a window) because that would never work for me or for many other people. Hell, I can't even get a strong signal in my house with a standard receiver without placing my antenna in just the right sweet spot. |
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| TIJUANA1 |
| Athe XM walkman is shitty. I have a friend who has it and once you are indoors or if you are in between tall buildings its sucks. You really do not need the $300 hassle. What we do need is for Sirius to put the show on the sirius internet site. |
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| FuQ |
| I definitely want a portable |
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| LeeHarveyIdiot |
| I'm with you dude. I've been holding off for the S50 piece of junk. It's a total step backwards not to be able to listen to Howard at the Gym. I just bought an eheh eh on ebay that supposedly already has a subscription. It's a boombox type. so that'll hold me over till i get the s50 in jan. |
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| Endoman |
I have the home and car unit now and just move it from home to car to office.
I hate having to carry that fucker around so I will definitely be getting the walkman when it is available. I still listen to the show every day on "regular" radio though. Then as soon as its over I go to tunes or Douche 100.
I cant wait for the whole lineup to be up and running it will be true GRAVITAS to listen and call in whilst smokin a doob and talkin on SFN I am going to have to "simplify my life" to have time to do all that. |
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| mochinist |
The sirius sporster replay also has a built in transmitter, I asked this question in the sirius forum here at sfn and one of the members responded and said that it was good for about 75 to 100 feet, this is what I plan on trying with my walkman that I now use at work. If that doesn't work well, I am going to get a stronger fm broadcaster like what winst posted above. I know that doesn't help you guys that work outside, or help when you are at the gym, but it is an option if you are in a office that will pick up the sirius signal yet you still want to listen to it through a walkman so that you don't have issues with the content of the programming offending anyone in the office. |
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| leatherface666 |
| I am one of the few people who have absolutely no problem paying for quality entertainment. I will definately be getting the on demand channel BUT I will not be getting sirius because they have no portable reciever. I work outside during the summers and in the winter I am all around the shop so I need a walkman style reciever. So I guess I'm just gonna have to download the show because one thing I won't do is pay 12.99 a month to record the show and listen to it a day late. |
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| Franky Pants |
| I guess if I didn't also enjoy listening to music on satellite radio I would find it hard to justify a monthly fee for a show I couldn't hear live. |
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| leatherface666 |
Quote: Originally posted by Franky Pants
I guess if I didn't also enjoy listening to music on satellite radio I would find it hard to justify a monthly fee for a show I couldn't hear live. |
In my case I listen to mostly underground music that the programmers at sirius have never even heard of and besides I already have an ipod. |
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| jigzaw |
It's so frustrating to be willing and able to pay for Sirius, be unwilling to go without my Howard show in the morning, but to know that even if I got Sirius I wouldn't be able to listen to it when Howard is on!!! I too take public transportation and work in an office where I am up and walking around a lot and never near any windows. I depend on my walkman to hear Howard on the train and at work, and I know my job will not allow me to carry a boombox around all day.
The S50 is a cool device, but does me no good: it's way way too expensive and if I'm leaving it home to record the show, then I can never take it to work with me to listen to my recording!!! I can't listen at night. No time.
I'm considering paying like 5 bucks a month to a friend with Sirius to record the show and send me the mp3's so I can put them on my mp3 player. At least till they come up with something that I could actually use! |
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| 58lambert |
| You can count me as another person waiting for a portable solution. |
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| kevokev |
| Yes, waiting for portable |
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| veganigma |
| Yes, I have not subscribed because I want a truly portable unit to listen to live content. The S50 is totally useless so I doubt I'd spend $300+ on it just to record Howard's show. |
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| fano3 |
| Yes - waiting for a true "live" portable. I commute into NYC and take public transportation - I need the damn thing. Why would they sign Howard, knowing full well he has a ton of people who commute by pt, and not have a "live" portable ready? Why the hell am I going to shell out $300+ for the S50 when it still has to be docked and I can only listen "on the go" to stuff I've recorded? I emailed Sirius and they told me I was wrong and sent me the press release for the S50 which basically went on to tell me I was right. This does not look promising. |
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| dizash |
I've been using a program called Cybercorder to record the show. It's good in that you can schedule a recurring recording (I have it set to record from 5:55am-11am, M-F), but unfortunately it records in .wav. So I wind up converting it to mp3 and putting it on my ipod. I'd get the s50 and record the show if they repeated it late at night and listen the next day, but it would be a lot easier to have a true walkman, that doesn't need to be in a freakin' cradle to receive the signal.
Looks like I'd be better off recording the show on the computer and putting it on the ipod like I've been doing all along.
Does the boom-box need an external antenna?? |
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| anvil82 |
To record the show I use a program called radiator http://flesko.cz/ and a d-link usb radio.
When the show moves to sirius I will probably get a cheap pnp unit to record the show to mp3 and stream it over the net so I can listen at work (private use only). |
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| SidekickChuck |
Is it possible that XM has a patent on how you receive satellite streams in a portable unit? Because that is the only thing I can think of as a reason to why Sirius has not come out with one yet.
Their new portable non-realtime player is just a glorified mp3 player which can only record streams when plugged into the base. This is not acceptable for us Sirius subscribers.
For now I just use "Audio Recorder FREE" which takes any of your computer inputs and converts it to mp3. So I just use the line-in which the receiver is plugged into, and rip them to mp3 to listen to at a later time. |
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| veganigma |
No, sirius is just a messed up company, which is why they don't have a truly portable company.
Yet, I'll still subscribe just to hear Howard. |
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| fano3 |
Ok so I've written Sirius again and implored them they need a "realtime, live" portable player. They responded with:
"We are excited to announce that the new XACT Stream Jockey is available. This unit can be
used as a portable unit with the appropriate docking kit. The XS028 Sirius Satellite Radio Power Pod Portable Battery Pack is currently available to make this equipment truly portable."
I've checked them out and I think from what I've read (although I could be wrong! It's happened b4) that this is the portable we've been looking for. While it's not the ideal situation, I believe it is "realtime, live" and portable. If this is the case, I'm all over it.
The player they say you need:
http://www.xactcommunication.com/Si...eceiver-12.html
Need this powerpack:
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-df9njY...28&search=XS028 |
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| Franky Pants |
Wow, this is a great find. It looks like Walmart is selling the power pack for 98.76 and it's in stock. Xact Power Pod Portable Battery Pack
I think I still prefer the S50 even though it's not real-time live because of it's recording capabilities and I can listen to it anywhere. Huge price difference though. |
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| fano3 |
| I hear you, the S50 is pretty sweet but until it is "realtime, live" capable, it's a waste of $350 for me. I'd love to have the "Tivo" like capability of recording I think it's 40 hours of content (I think 40 hrs) but again, if I can't listen "live" it's useless. |
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| Fafafooey76 |
DUNNO if anyone has posted this info yet but....
My Sirius Sportster unit, when plugged into my boombox, has a FM transmitter built into it, meaning...
I can pick up the frequency on it on any FM walkman type unit up to like 60 or 70 feet.
So my boombox sits on my desk at work, and i can walk around all day listening to it on my FM walkman..cool shit.
So unless youre like a mailman walking around town...Fuck the expensive walkman Sirius is putting out. |
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| Franky Pants |
| Do you think Sirius and Sprint would consider broadcasting Howard 100 on their Wireless Radio Service? Then we could listen to Howard wherever there's a cell signal. |
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| GES |
Quote: Originally posted by DrewsDaddy
dude, you have no idea what you are talking about! I own the MyFI and it has a built in antennae. The unit works great. I lay in bed listening to it and it's awesome. They recently put out add on headphones with built in antennae, but this is only needed in the fringe areas of service. Do some research before you start making statements that can easily be dismissed.
You can suck on my balls...
You live in Washington DC, which is XM headquarters, only a stupid company would come out with something that doesn't work in their home city. of course it's going to work.. and it'll work in most of the large cities but like all the reviews said... it doesn't work well in suburbs and if it does work, that's because you hooked up an external antenna... it works in big cities, but sucks everywhere else...
Take in to thought that everyone that subscribes to satellite radio doesn't live in a large city with a million repeaters all over the place... now how portable is it?
Exactly. Neither company owns a truly portable device. That xm receiver has a 40% return rate rate. I guess you can say that makes it extremely portable! |
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