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Satellite Radio Is Officially Here
dragons_flight writes: "XM Satellite Radio has officially launched, initially selling equipment only in the Dallas and San Diego markets, but going national by Nov. 15. A reciever for home or car costs ~$300 plus a $10/month subscription service. Many new cars will be pre-equipped with satellite-ready radios. XM provides 100 digital channels, a signicant number of which are commercial free. Sirius satellite radio says they are committed to launching be the end of the year." Any readers out there with the equipment for this have comments about it? ($10x12 + $300 makes $420 I'll be putting toward other things.)
I am a huge fan of shoutcast powered internet music stations. There is a large amount of different formats out there too. If there was a shoutcast type broadcast, I think there would be a lot more interest. I would be thrilled if I could listen to my internet radio station in my truck! Shoutcast is free (you need bandwidth tho!) but I would imagine this would require some hefty rates to be able to broadcast via the satellite radio. Since I have my own shoutcast station, I could make my own playlists too! Heck, if the price was right, and you could get a satellite relay, you could listen to your own music anywhere!
I expect to see dozens of web sites come on-line with XM cracking wares. It won't take long. It didn't with DirecTV, and even with DirecTV's best efforts to snuff them out, they just come back stronger than before.
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