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XM Portable Satellite Radio Receiver with Hard Drive
daveplot writes "XM announced today the new XM MyFi. The hand-held MyFi gives users the personal freedom to enjoy XM Radio's Ultimate PlayList of more than 130 digital XM channels in two ways: a 'live' listening mode and a time-shifting "memory" mode. The MyFi's live mode enables users to listen live to all of XM's 68 commercial-free music channels, plus premier news, sports, talk, traffic and weather channels. MyFi's memory mode -- called 'My XM' -- allows users to store five hours or more of XM's outstanding content with the press of a button, even when the unit is not in use. The MyFi makes it possible to enjoy XM Satellite Radio anywhere, anytime, effortlessly. More information is at XM411.com." We had a story mentioning this a few days ago.
Either XM or Sirius should team up with apple to launch an Ipod with satellite radio. I bet that would help sell satellite radio subscriptions.
Man, I have to think that the most ridiculous thing is selling a hard-drive based music player without any way to put on mp3/AAC/etc.
500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
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Oh Ick. Just what we need - more ads on a pay service.
Give me lots of channels, time shifting, and the ability to buy (preferrably unencumbered) tracks out-of-band (i.e., I can browse for tracks, not just wait for them to be played) and I will sign up. This service is so almost there.
The MyFi's live mode enables users to listen live to all of XM's 68 commercial-free music channels, plus premier news, sports, talk, traffic and weather channels.
Wow... what a way to work in the number of channels, etc. into the schpiel.
What else did you expect? That MyFi would not allow some channels to be heard??
I was going to post this if someone else didn't. They shouldn't be able to walk all over Neuros just because they're a small company...
I'm old enough to remember the beginning of Cable TV and the promises they made. They promised a crystal clear picture (mostly fulfilled) and commercial-free TV except for local channels carried.
Well now everything, including the premium movie channels are carrying commercials. Kinda pisses me off because when cable started to catch on, they cut back on the signal strength of local air stations practically forcing the watcher to buy cable TV. Some people think I'm imagining things that local TV over the air was always bad. I tell them to compare that with their local ethnic TV station... out here local spanish TV comes in clear as a bell. They didn't cut back signal strength.
So if satelite radio catches on, the same will happen to the local radio stations. I mourn already...
Well, it ain't free but you can get one really cheap -- there's this device that offers constant free music and talk streams all the time, and you can rip any stream you want by connecting another device. Most of the free music is paid for by advertising. It's pretty cool if you like advertising; they call it a "radio."