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I mostly bought it for a few specific stations and last year, those stations just being being as good.You can manage your XM account online with one exception: You have to call to cancel your account, and you cannot call 24 hours a day; they have 9-5 Eastern business hours. However, I no longer listen to XM. I was an XM customer for 4 yrs. I used this radio during that time and it works fine. Very inconvenient.When I complained to the customer service rep that they had charged me on a credit card number that they never had (the web account shows my old card #), she literally laughed at me and told me to take it up with Amex.Would you really want to buy a product from soneone who laughs at you when you have an issue.Just use Pandora and save yourself the aggravation.
If you spend much time in the car I would almost say it is a must have. I will never purchase anything from Delphi again. The volume knob on the boom box no longer works as intended. No matter which way you turn it the volume goes down. The channel variety, super clear reception. If that means I have to switch satellite providers so be it.
Speaking of the remote control. The replacement worked for a while but now the tuning knob functions erratically. If it wasn't for my remote control both the receiver and boom box would be completely worthless. The clip mounted to the back of the remote control is inserted under the battery cover.
Occasionally when trying to clip the remote to something the clip will pop off and take the battery cover and sometimes the battery with it. What a heap of junk. Satellite Radio Good. It will skip stations and if you land on a station for more than a few seconds it will automatically change the channel.
Gotta love it.Delphi Bad. The first Skyfi I received did not work at all.
Many music channels on xm are uncensored as well.The non-music channels offered by xm radio are mostly nationally syndicated broadcast stations such as Fox News, CNN, ABC news, ESPN, Fox Sports Radio, and C-SPAN. The boom box style home audio system plays loud clear digital sound, and the SKYFI plugs right into it. The car adapter offered for the SKYFI plays through a tape deck, so there isn't any interference that is common with adapters that play through an unused radio frequency. Xm radio also offers non-stop weather channels for every major city in the continental United States. The variety of music alone puts itself above the competition. After listening to a FM radio station for a few hours, every song on their rotation has been played. There are sixty-seven music channels, which play a certain type of music, so there isn't overlapping.
Xm radio also broadcasts every single Major League Baseball game, from opening day to the World Series. The music channels are commercial free, and there are very few repeated songs. Standard radio plays generic music and there isn't any variety. There are also family oriented channels, uncensored comedy channels, and talk radio channels. Standard radio does not have nearly anything xm radio offers, so the decision to purchase one should be rather simply. Xm radio's musical variety literally offers something for everyone. Easy to use, fun to listen to, xm radio has clear upper hand on the radio industry.
The xm radio receiver also displays the name of the song and artist name, so waiting until the end to find out who is the artist is not nessesary. On the road or in the home, the xm radio SKYFI is easy to use. With that fact alone, you hear something new everyday. Compare this variety to standard FM AM radio, and there is a clear line between them.Standard radio has nothing xm radio offers and besides being free there is no reason to keep listening to it. All of standard radio is censored, which can be rather bland after awhile.If an alternative is need from standard radio, xm radio is the only choice. Standard radio looses clarity if the listener is too far from the radio station.
These stations are not operated by xm radio so they have commercials. The news stations on AM radio are sometimes very static, and mostly local.
Xm radio, although pricy, offers so much more than standard radio. Xm radio is also available online, so when an xm radio account in activated, the radio is available at a desktop or laptop.
With non-stop music, news, sports and comedy, there is something new to listen to everyday. The music channels also have special programs that play a certain artist or sound.
The boom box can run on batteries so it can go anywhere in the world and play clear audio. From mainstream to underground, Christian to Urban, and Rock to Classical, there are too many to list.
Xm radio continues to grow in listeners, and it's no mystery why, it is clearly the best way to listen to the radio.
I live in Bermuda and with the aiming advice it gets full signal strength and the sound is really good.
There are only so many characters available to see on the display, meaning that some song titles are abbreviated or clipped off entirely. As for the programming, it's a good value for 10 bucks per month (NOTE: PRICE HAS GONE UP). You only get 20 ft of antenna cord, which is hardly enough but they will SELL you extensions, of course.
I don't care how some of the channels - ones I WANT to like - are programmed, but there's always something else playing. Overall the sound quality is very impressive. If you're busy you may find yourself walking back and forth to look at the little amber display to see who the artist / song is.
Customer service isn't very good. I ended up aiming a cheap video camera toward the display and patching it through to a 20" LCD panel so I can see this information from most any distance. Other problems are not enough presets (only 20).
If you get the kit for your car you will be in for a real treat.
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