I've been on site at XM, seen the facilities and heard the radios. From a quality of sound POV, the difference between XM and FM is like that between FM and AM. You don't need golden ears to hear it, XM just sounds great. They already have radios working flawlessly in moving vehicles through cities with preliminary repeater networks. The car radios look like any other car radios and handle AM/FM and CDs. The antenna is about the size of your thumb.
So from a tech POV, I have no worries about XM. From the content POV, they are working pretty damn hard at providing content that is an alternative to terrestrial radio. They don't want to just be a better sounding alternative, they want to be unique. The test versions of the first few stations sound good, it will be neat to hear what they sound like with the live jocks (and most of the stations will have live jocks).
Mostly XM has a lot of marketing to do, and I don't think you're going to be able to escape it this summer.
Check out "If At All Possible, Involve a Cow" by Joel Steinberg. It's available at Amazon or wherever, and details all sorts of college pranks, including extensive info on CalTech and MIT and even a short section on UBC.
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So from a tech POV, I have no worries about XM. From the content POV, they are working pretty damn hard at providing content that is an alternative to terrestrial radio. They don't want to just be a better sounding alternative, they want to be unique. The test versions of the first few stations sound good, it will be neat to hear what they sound like with the live jocks (and most of the stations will have live jocks).
Mostly XM has a lot of marketing to do, and I don't think you're going to be able to escape it this summer.
JD
Check out "If At All Possible, Involve a Cow" by Joel Steinberg. It's available at Amazon or wherever, and details all sorts of college pranks, including extensive info on CalTech and MIT and even a short section on UBC.