I've been a happy sirius subscriber for 4 years. Well worth it.
However, there are concerns over the long term survivability of Sirius/
xm. They have a billion worth of debt coming due this year and no
financiers in the market.
So you might want to hold off on a long term commitment to Sirius
until their future is a bit more stable..
I thought about chumby as well for this application. If you search
the chumby user forums, some have gotten shoutcast streams to work but
it isn't a plug and play solution.
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Brian Weeden
Technical Consultant
Secure World Foundation
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On 29-Dec-08, at 8:30 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Xm and sirius are same now, sirius bought xm. Best monet I spend.
One of those cheap luxuries. Less then going to a film, and if you
drive a lot way worth it.
CW
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:18:20
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [H] Pillow talk radio?
You can get something like the RoadyXT w/ home bundle to listen inside
your home with whatever speakers you have. You can then move the
RoadyXT to the car as well. Of course, you also need a sub to XM /
Sirrius. I think they are like 7$ / month or so.
Most
Joe User wrote:
Hello HWG,
I just can't settle on a solution to an issue I have. See, I
live out in the sticks. AM radio is a nightmare in the evenings. I
want to listen to talk radio when I go to sleep. The bedroom is
upstairs and I have no network connections up there. I have the
ability to do wireless networking. The bedroom is on the top floor
of the home and my bed is near a window. I have considered Internet
radio but don't know anything more about it then that it exists and
I have considered satellite radio service (xm/siris/other?). When I
lived in upstate NY I used to listen to 81 WGY (810 AM) because in
the evening was a talk radio show that discussed daily events and
random chat basically. They had call-ins and what-not. It doesn't
have to be theme based like gardening but I am open to options.
As this is probably no surprise - I want to do this as cheap as
possible. I will listen to whatever it is through a headphone jacked
pillow speaker as to not disturb the wife. I have seen Wi-Fi Net
radios but never seen a home install satellite radio. Just need a
little advice and help if someone knows more about this stuff.
Thanks.
