You Know You Are Old When

[LouNY]

Really? Unless you have sky cover (eg. in a tunnel or absolutely massive storm system), Sirius should really never drop out. That's the beauty of satellite-based systems.

Of course satellite TV has a fatal flaw, in that it's bandwidth becomes limited when the weather is bad. You know what most people like to do when the weather is bad? Oh yeah... sit home and watch TV! Hey, it works great when it's beautiful and sunny outside... you know, when you're at the beach or in the garden.

Heavy tree canopy, along side steep hills or some highway cuts. One spot in Glens Falls NY. always cuts out and it is were you are likely to be stopped waiting for a light, it's on a steep cut with buildings to the west. And on Rt. 29 and Rt. 22 there are a few dead spots. These are just for Sirius, when I start trying to remember all the cell phone dead spots it's much more then I can to try and remember.

 

[WinterDeere]

Heavy tree canopy, along side steep hills or some highway cuts. One spot in Glens Falls NY. always cuts out and it is were you are likely to be stopped waiting for a light, it's on a steep cut with buildings to the west. And on Rt. 29 and Rt. 22 there are a few dead spots. These are just for Sirius, when I start trying to remember all the cell phone dead spots it's much more then I can to try and remember.

I guess this supports my original supposition: Sirius is not attractive for those of us in the northeast, for so many reasons. But it may be a better deal for those working in the vast open expanses of the west, where long distances kill terrestrial signals, but open sky permits better satellite reception.

 

[LouNY]

I guess this supports my original supposition: Sirius is not attractive for those of us in the northeast, for so many reasons. But it may be a better deal for those working in the vast open expanses of the west, where long distances kill terrestrial signals, but open sky permits better satellite reception.

I still use and enjoy it because the local radio stations are even more spotty and often don't play what I want to hear. As far as recording music to a thumb drive or down loading to my phone it's just not worth the time and effort. So I'll keep the Sirius XM even with it's gaps and loses.

 

[WinterDeere]

I still use and enjoy it because the local radio stations are even more spotty and often don't play what I want to hear. As far as recording music to a thumb drive or down loading to my phone it's just not worth the time and effort. So I'll keep the Sirius XM even with it's gaps and loses.

Yeah, I get that. I actually had it for years, even if I didn't use it much. The trouble for me was that 3 vehicles x $25/month = $900/year. Every year I'd cancel, then they'd come back and offer me a promotional price of $10 - $15/month ($360 - $540/year), and I'd do another year, but I eventually got sick of playing their game, every time they slammed me back up to $900/year.

I have a 64 GB SD card or thumbnail-sized USB drive permanently plugged into each of my vehicles, and just dump our entire music library onto that. I think I have 900 albums on each of those things... music I actually like and bought, over the years. And it's free!

I don't purchase new music that often anymore, so keeping them fresh with our latest and greatest isn't much of a chore, but I'd probably feel differently if I were younger and still buying new albums every week.

 

[JethroB]

Yeah, I get that. I actually had it for years, even if I didn't use it much. The trouble for me was that 3 vehicles x $25/month = $900/year. Every year I'd cancel, then they'd come back and offer me a promotional price of $10 - $15/month ($360 - $540/year), and I'd do another year, but I eventually got sick of playing their game, every time they slammed me back up to $900/year.

I have a 64 GB SD card or thumbnail-sized USB drive permanently plugged into each of my vehicles, and just dump our entire music library onto that. I think I have 900 albums on each of those things... music I actually like and bought, over the years. And it's free!

I don't purchase new music that often anymore, so keeping them fresh with our latest and greatest isn't much of a chore, but I'd probably feel differently if I were younger and still buying new albums every week.

That SiriusXM annual attempt to almost double the price was my biggest gripe. I paid about $100/year if I played the renewal game. I paid by check as I was warned Not to give them a credit card number. It still took several attempts over months to cancel and stop the bills from coming in the mail.

 

[WinterDeere]

It still took several attempts over months to cancel and stop the bills from coming in the mail.

The way I finally got rid of them was to replace the credit card they were billing. Then they spent more than a year sending me "past due" notices, and threatening to report me to credit agencies, for failure to pay.

Pay for what? I canceled your service a year ago! It's not my fault you kept billing me, and didn't shut off my service. I assume they can tell I hadn't been using it.

It all amounted to nothing, or at least not enough to hurt my credit score in any noticeable way. Yeah, definitely a totally un-ethical company, and I won't be sad when they die. They're just the modern-day Columbia House Records "12 albums for 99 cents" crap, that we all remember from the 1980's.

 

[Oaktree]

I actually had it for years, even if I didn't use it much. The trouble for me was that 3 vehicles x $25/month = $900/year. Every year I'd cancel, then they'd come back and offer me a promotional price of $10 - $15/month ($360 - $540/year), and I'd do another year, but I eventually got sick of playing their game, every time they slammed me back up to $900/year.

I have a 64 GB SD card or thumbnail-sized USB drive permanently plugged into each of my vehicles, and just dump our entire music library onto that. I think I have 900 albums on each of those things... music I actually like and bought, over the years. And it's free!

We have it in my wife's car. She likes the smooth jazz channel (Watercolors), so I pay for the subscription as her birthday present each year. Added advantage, it gets me off the hook of coming up with something else . Last I looked it's $8 and change a month. I pitched a fit last time a promo price ran out, and they gave me this price supposedly without expiration. Been a couple years now... I don't subscribe in either of my vehicles, listened a few times during the free trial and it seemed to be 257 channels and nothing on. I'll stick to either a flash drive or (gasp!) regular radio.

 

[masscity]

I like it, we have some country stations that play a lot of young country, which I don't care for. On SiriusXM I like 50's,

60's and Willy's Roadhouse. I like that fact that it doesn't fade and I don't have to change stations.

 

[WM75Guy]

Yacht Rock channel 311 is my favorite.

 

[steve tym]

70's rock, 80's country and Howard.