Ah, you know me… I live for that sort of thing. Really.
I just bought a 2013 Honda Accord with XM and tuning is the one thing that is dissapointing. Up until a few years ago I was able to use my dad’s player…it was the kind that could be moved from a car to a boombox. Two things that I liked alot were the ability to chose a navigational listing of either station or artist or even song and also the ability to tag favorite songs and be prompted whenever it was playing on any channel.
I’m not getting either of those features on my Honda (XM btw) … I wonder if it’s possible that Honda might change that?
I have it, I love it.
The Blue Collar Comedy channel alone is worth the price of the subscription. When I’m in a bad mood, they will always make me laugh. And I have found some awesome music stations as well.
So I get one of the many come-on (actually, come-back!) emails from SiriusXM, telling me my XM radio is on for the next two weeks. So I flip it on and lo-and-behold…
…the forest still makes my reception so spotty it’s not worth bothering with. Which means that the first and last ten minutes of any journey would be XM-less. Oh well.
That’s actually more than just a cool bit of trivia. Sirius works FAR better in the northern parts of the country, especially if you’ve got a lot of interference from trees and mountains. Since the programming is pretty much identical these days, that’s the only real difference between the services, but if you live certain places it can be a significant one.
DirecTV includes a few of these channels. I listen to the 70’s music (804), country, and bluegrass channels.
It’s only a sample of whats on XM Sirius but I enjoy the channels DirecTV carries.
I got the same thing, except via snail mail. I have no idea how to even get the satellite radio in my car to pick up the satellite. I certainly hope that they don’t use this promotion as another reason to start calling me umpteen times a day.
I like it. Mostly, I listen to the channels featuring 60s, 70s, and 80s music. Good programming for the most part (though I did at one point want to suggest that they should rename the 70s channel to “The Peter Frampton Channel”), and great hosts.
Recently, I drove nearly halfway across Canada and back again, with the radio on the whole time. No problems with reception, except in a few deep rock cuts in northern Ontario. But it was nice not to deal with the fade-in-and-out of terrestrial radio in remote areas, nor with commercials.
I should have started a new thread rather than try to refocus an old one. One more shot before I do that:
I did contact SXM who said to talk to the manufacturer (Honda).
Does anybody know if the tuners you would get directly from SXM still have the capabilities I’m looking for?
Does anybody have experience with a built-in tuner in a vehicle with that capability?
Do auto manufacturers ever provide software updates with significant improvements? (I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of updates that fixed a problem).
TIA
My sister has XM Sirius in her car. I went on a trip with her last week, and I can tell you that if you drive on roads that are lined with trees, you will not have a signal. When we started on the trip, I was thinking of getting it for my truck. But by the end, I didn’t see the point of paying for radio that goes out if anything is above you.