Other Receiver - $100
Other Receiver Homekit - $50
Other Receiver Carkit - $50
Other Receiver Boombox - $100
100+100+50+50=300 - Already $50 less, granted the portability might be worth $50 to you, but lets do some more math.
Since the MyFi doesn't come with speakers for portability, you will need a good set of battery powered speakers if you want to use it ala boombox. If you can even find them, I doubt you will do so for less than $50 so now we are at $400 compared to $300. Also, if you have a boombox for the SkyFi/2 then you really don't need a homekit, since it can function as one so that takes us down to $250 for it.
$400-$250=$150
The math can be twisted as needed to fit your agenda and certainly 'good deal' is a matter of perspective, but the car kit and home kits are not $100 each. The prices of them have fallen from $80/ea to $50/ea and I even picked up a couple of homekits for my SkyFi 2 for $30 from the evil Wal-Mart when they were clearancing out SkyFi 1 kits.
I agree that they should offer all of the equipment in seperate packaging, sadly due to the design I don't think that they can. From what I have read, you have to have it sitting in the home cradle to do scheduled recordings and it needs to be in a cradle to charge.
The SkyFi 2 doesn't exactly timeshift. Rather, it records a buffer of what you are currently listening to, but it gets erased once you turn it off. This is basically for if you hear a song that you like and want to hear it again, or get out of the car to run in the store or something and leave the unit turned on.
What the MyFI does is true timeshift. You can record up to 5 hours overnight or whatever and listen to it later in the day. It isn't erased when you power down, etc like the SkyFi 2's buffer.
When Satellite Radio (SDARS) first hit the market, I was among those who swore up and down that I would never pay a subscription for radio service. Radio service, one of the easiest obtainable free services around, was fine the way it was.
It stayed that way until I happened to see a good deal on a receiver and decided that I would go ahead and give it a try, subscription numbers were growing (although this was still while XM was sub-1,000,000) and popularity was increasing. It was one of those things, I had no idea what I was missing until I gave it a try.
That was about 2 years ago. I am now paying about $25/month for SDARS, as I subscribe both to Sirius and XM and pay the premium fee for Opie & Anthony on XM. The commercial free music is great; the sound quality is superb and the list of choices is endless. I can drive cross-country listening only to music that I enjoy and without commercials with runtime longer than the songs. Although I rarely listened to broadcast radio opting instead for CDs, that has completely turned around and I find that I rarely listen to CDs and even listen to SDARS over watching TV or Movies a lot of the time.
If I am out of the house all day, I can get my fill of FoxNews, MSNBC, or CNN. The Right-Wing and Left-Wing channels offered by each service allow me to see each viewpoint as harshly as those contesting it feel when it comes to political issues.
You don't know what you're missing till you try it...
As for the MyFI specifically, yes it would be nice but not for the price they want. You can get a receiver, car kit, and home kit all for about $100-120 after rebate or using Friends & Family promos. I would really like a MyFI, but will not be getting one until the price comes WAY down or there is a competing product with a much lower price.
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Fair point, but I was racing for first post. Which I lost cause I suck...I didn't have time for such things as logic.
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To adjust your numbers a little...
Other Receiver - $100
Other Receiver Homekit - $50
Other Receiver Carkit - $50
Other Receiver Boombox - $100
100+100+50+50=300 - Already $50 less, granted the portability might be worth $50 to you, but lets do some more math.
Since the MyFi doesn't come with speakers for portability, you will need a good set of battery powered speakers if you want to use it ala boombox. If you can even find them, I doubt you will do so for less than $50 so now we are at $400 compared to $300. Also, if you have a boombox for the SkyFi/2 then you really don't need a homekit, since it can function as one so that takes us down to $250 for it.
$400-$250=$150
The math can be twisted as needed to fit your agenda and certainly 'good deal' is a matter of perspective, but the car kit and home kits are not $100 each. The prices of them have fallen from $80/ea to $50/ea and I even picked up a couple of homekits for my SkyFi 2 for $30 from the evil Wal-Mart when they were clearancing out SkyFi 1 kits.
I agree that they should offer all of the equipment in seperate packaging, sadly due to the design I don't think that they can. From what I have read, you have to have it sitting in the home cradle to do scheduled recordings and it needs to be in a cradle to charge.
The SkyFi 2 doesn't exactly timeshift. Rather, it records a buffer of what you are currently listening to, but it gets erased once you turn it off. This is basically for if you hear a song that you like and want to hear it again, or get out of the car to run in the store or something and leave the unit turned on.
What the MyFI does is true timeshift. You can record up to 5 hours overnight or whatever and listen to it later in the day. It isn't erased when you power down, etc like the SkyFi 2's buffer.
When Satellite Radio (SDARS) first hit the market, I was among those who swore up and down that I would never pay a subscription for radio service. Radio service, one of the easiest obtainable free services around, was fine the way it was.
It stayed that way until I happened to see a good deal on a receiver and decided that I would go ahead and give it a try, subscription numbers were growing (although this was still while XM was sub-1,000,000) and popularity was increasing. It was one of those things, I had no idea what I was missing until I gave it a try.
That was about 2 years ago. I am now paying about $25/month for SDARS, as I subscribe both to Sirius and XM and pay the premium fee for Opie & Anthony on XM. The commercial free music is great; the sound quality is superb and the list of choices is endless. I can drive cross-country listening only to music that I enjoy and without commercials with runtime longer than the songs. Although I rarely listened to broadcast radio opting instead for CDs, that has completely turned around and I find that I rarely listen to CDs and even listen to SDARS over watching TV or Movies a lot of the time.
If I am out of the house all day, I can get my fill of FoxNews, MSNBC, or CNN. The Right-Wing and Left-Wing channels offered by each service allow me to see each viewpoint as harshly as those contesting it feel when it comes to political issues.
You don't know what you're missing till you try it... As for the MyFI specifically, yes it would be nice but not for the price they want. You can get a receiver, car kit, and home kit all for about $100-120 after rebate or using Friends & Family promos. I would really like a MyFI, but will not be getting one until the price comes WAY down or there is a competing product with a much lower price.