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Sirius Satellite Radio hits mark of 3 million subscribers
Satellite radio is one of the geekiest yet most widely embraced new age techs around. People are loving it, and it is growing faster each year. Sirius, one of the two most popular providers, recently hit one of their initial goals of three million subscribers. While not as beefy as competitor XM, it's still a huge number and demonstrates the popularity of satellite radio, for both home and travel purposes. Just a few short months ago they had around 2.17 million, showing just how much it is being picked up. With more radio hosts such as Howard Stern and Phil Hendrie endorsing satellite radio as the future, we can only expect these services to grow.
User Comments (10)
Post a comment| PanicX on December 27, 2005 12:54 PM | I've often wondered about the quality of satelite radio. I
know with a satelite dish, I've often gotten poor reception
of TV channels when bad weather hits which is a real pain as
bad weather is most likely why I'm inside watching TV. It
stands to reason that I'd probably lose satelite signal when
driving around as overpasses and tall buildings would block
Line Of Site to the satelite. Anyone have any real
experience to comment on the signal quality?
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| Phantasm66 on December 27, 2005 1:13 PM | You need a special device is that right?
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| asphix on December 27, 2005 1:14 PM | My problem is I dont listen to radio enough to pay a monthly
service for it. I did just get an AVS receiver with built in
XM support.. maybe its something I should look into
deeper. What are the benefits? Anyone here have satelite radio that would recommend it instead of OTA radio?
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| PanicX on December 27, 2005 1:24 PM | Originally posted by Phantasm66: You need
a special device is that right? Yes. You need a
satellite radio reciever that supports whichever broadcast
you wish to pay for. Unfortunately I haven't seen any
models that support both XM and Sirius should you wish to
switch or receive both. Yet another reason to hesitate in
joining the movement.
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| Phantasm66 on December 27, 2005 1:25 PM | Imagine my disappointment when I figured out it was not
something that you can get over the Net for free....  
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| Eleventeen on December 27, 2005 1:54 PM | 3 million. Hmm, thats hard to believe. All the time I hear
people talking about how horrible satelite radio is. I've
never owned it and I doubt I will in the future. It doesn't
really sound like you get alot of benefits that you wouldn't
get from regular radio. Heck, now some are saying that it
isn't commercial free music anymore. Anyways, this is what
people were telling me, so I dont know if it is all true.
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| nathanskywalker on December 27, 2005 2:13 PM | That is alot of people. Wow, yeah "radio"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio... we have
advanced a little since then..satellite..i have
broadban..internet radio.... 
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| mtyson8 on December 27, 2005 4:47 PM | Another reason I would belive the satellite radio is picking
up is because they are offered on new cars. I saw that there
is a radio avaiable for the MerS-Benz where you choose
either an XM or Sirius based package. This sort of forces
users to subcribe when they buy new mid to high ranged
priced cars. They just sort of add it, since its not so
expensive.
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| Bartzy on December 27, 2005 6:42 PM | I don't understand why people can only choose between XM and
Sirius ? Is it the technology limitiations ? I've never heard of Satellite radio, and I hear regular radio all day long... It's nice to hear it and not your favorite songs in the computer all the time, because you get the newest and most popular songs, and sometimes you get familiar with a song you wouldn't even hear if you used a MP3 player for example...
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| mentaljedi on December 28, 2005 11:52 AM | Originally posted by Bartzy: I don't
understand why people can only choose between XM and Sirius
? Is it the technology limitiations ? To answer your question, all i need
is one word. Monopoly or duelopoly. Whatever.
I've never heard of Satellite radio, and I hear regular radio all day long... It's nice to hear it and not your favorite songs in the computer all the time, because you get the newest and most popular songs, and sometimes you get familiar with a song you wouldn't even hear if you used a MP3 player for example...
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