Sirius XM Preps Bankruptcy

[Kevio]

How do I make the bloody typing man stop? That's disturbing.

I apologize for overstating the case for mobile audio. Yes, clearly there are people who listen attentively to music and some of them probably even get counted as a significant part of bazillion-dollar business plans putting radio stations in space.

I really don't know what's going to happen with satellite radio. Satellite TV seems to be doing fine. Other space-based services (Iridium phones, trans-continental telephone service), over the years have been beaten out by their terrestrial counterparts.

However it goes down, I do stand by my earlier statement that audio enthusiasts will have limited bearing on it. It is adoption by mobile listeners that is most crucial.

[pixelthis]

Relax. That's not at all what he said. What he said was most people don't care about high quality audio. Most people are quite happy with 128k MP3 downloads. Which they listen to on crappy earbuds while they're doing something else. Like it or not, that's the picture.

And I'm one of those "idiots" who seeks alternative sources for new music, even if its fidelity sux. I have discovered artists new to me - then purchased quite a few CDs as a result of friends sending me an MP3 or listening to XM. Works for me.

Get back to enjoying the music, K?

rw

BTW, today I got the wife a copy of Twilight. Sounds pretty good on the HT. Try expanding your horizons a bit.

EXpand my day to a good 28 hrs.
Between BLU, great TV like conner cronicles, music, internet, working, there arent enough hours in the day.
Twilight, a teen vampire chic flick. IF you say so.
BTW is our "hobby" ever going to promote itself?
An entire generation is missing out on dedicated music listening.

[Rich-n-Texas]

EXpand my day to a good 28 hrs.
Between BLU, great TV like conner cronicles, music, internet, working, there arent enough hours in the day.
Twilight, a teen vampire chic flick. IF you say so.
BTW is our "hobby" ever going to promote itself?
An entire generation is missing out on dedicated music listening.

And you call the music I listen to swill? Over the weekend on XM "Classic Vinyl", their programming was all about the top 33 most influencial Rock albums as voted by their audience. They played two or three tracks from each album which included bands like The Beatles, Stones, Cream, Derek and the Dominos, solo Eric Clapton, the mighty Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Moody Blues, Van Morrison, Yes, Janis Jopplin... too many more to list. I listened to that station for more than TWELVE hours while I was... doing some projects around the house and with all six speakers cranking +80dB into my living room.

Yeah, so I guess if it ain't Square Dance music or Polka playing down at the community center (near the river) at your trailer park it must be swill, huh dumbass?

And if you're so busy, why are you even arguing about satellite radio in the first place dumbass? Like I said... only here to incite.

[pixelthis]

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And you call the music I listen to swill? Over the weekend on XM "Classic Vinyl", their programming was all about the top 33 most influencial Rock albums as voted by their audience. They played two or three tracks from each album which included bands like The Beatles, Stones, Cream, Derek and the Dominos, solo Eric Clapton, the mighty Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Moody Blues, Van Morrison, Yes, Janis Jopplin... too many more to list. I listened to that station for more than TWELVE hours while I was... doing some projects around the house and with all six speakers cranking +80dB into my living room.

I had a lot of those when they first came out...ON REAL VINYL.
Sad thing is you dont have a clue to their true greatness, with your pukey 56k MP3.
Diamond dogs, ALL of the Zeppelin albums, L.A woman, you name it, I had all
of it, before you were a mistake your mom regretted.
Background music for your lesser generation...MY LIFE

Yeah, so I guess if it ain't Square Dance music or Polka playing down at the community center (near the river) at your trailer park it must be swill, huh dumbass?

THIS FROM DUMBASS2 who drives a friggin firebird, the epitome
of white trash ... which you probably aspire to, would be a step up from carpetbagger

And if you're so busy, why are you even arguing about satellite radio in the first place dumbass? Like I said... only here to incite.

Just trying to teach DUMBASS2 A LESSON, WHICH IS LIKE TRYING TO TEACH A CHIMP ALGERBRA

[Rich-n-Texas]

I had a lot of those when they first came out...ON REAL VINYL.
Sad thing is you dont have a clue to their true greatness, with your pukey 56k MP3.
Diamond dogs, ALL of the Zeppelin albums, L.A woman, you name it...

So what's the point of all this? More self-promotion? More insecurity issues? Your reputation here was cemented within your first ten posts dumbass. And guess what else dumbass, I've got every Led Zeppelin album on vinyl too. And many on CD now as well, which is what I listen to these days, while you still use your technics record player, right?

I had all of it, before you were a mistake your mom regretted.
Background music for your lesser generation...MY LIFE

Well I'm in my 50's now which means you're in your late 60's right? Sucks being as old as you and more reason to understand why you're such a miserable old pr!ck.

No dumbass, I grew up in the 60's and 70's listening to the artists I mentioned, and when I get the opportunity to replay those years on a system 10 times better than what I had back then, I take it. Let me repeat for you dumbass... doing some projects around the house means I wasn't sitting on the couch so SQ didn't matter.

THIS FROM DUMBASS2 who drives a friggin firebird, the epitome
of white trash ... which you probably aspire to, would be a step up from carpetbagger

This from an inbreed who drives a 68 pickup truck with a gun rack in the back window. Needed for when he's hunting opposum's for dinner, down by the river.

Just trying to teach DUMBASS2 A LESSON, WHICH IS LIKE TRYING TO TEACH A CHIMP ALGERBRA

You're big on thinking you're teaching people lessons. Too bad your old out-of-tune ears can't hear how many people here are laughing at you.

[Luvin Da Blues]

Ding, Ding, Ding...

Gentlemen to your corners. LOL

[pixelthis]

Well I'm in my 50's now which means you're in your late 60's right? Sucks being as old as you and more reason to understand why you're such a miserable old pr!ck.

In your "fifties"?
Is that your I.Q?
At least you do have an excuse for being a "miserable old prick", being from jersey and all
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No dumbass, I grew up in the 60's and 70's listening to the artists I mentioned, and when I get the opportunity to replay those years on a system 10 times better than what I had back then, I take it. Let me repeat for you dumbass... doing some projects around the house means I wasn't sitting on the couch so SQ didn't matter.

"DOING SOME "PROJECTS", fancy way of saying you were downloading porn

This from an inbreed who drives a 68 pickup truck with a gun rack in the back window. Needed for when he's hunting opposum's for dinner, down by the river.

As opposed to you, who lives in a van DOWN BY THE RIVER.

You're big on thinking you're teaching people lessons. Too bad your old out-of-tune ears can't hear how many people here are laughing at you.

As opposed to the rest of the world LAUGHING AT YOU.
Driving around in your firebird, comb-over flapping in the breeze

[Rich-n-Texas]

Meanwhile, Sirius XM is still alive and kicking, and as usual, dumbass prefers hurling insults instead of admitting he's wrong... again.

[pixelthis]

Meanwhile, Sirius XM is still alive and kicking, and as usual, dumbass prefers hurling insults instead of admitting he's wrong... again.

If they are still here in six months I will be happy to do so, hate to see a company go out of business.
YOU know good and well (or maybe you dont, not knowing much of anything) that if
SIRRIUS TANKS IT WONT BE OVERNIGHT.
But it will be soon.

[Smokey]

"DOING SOME "PROJECTS", fancy way of saying you were downloading porn

Rich, you must admit. This was funny

[pixelthis]

Rich, you must admit. This was funny

Not to mention true.

[Rich-n-Texas]

If they are still here in six months I will be happy to do so, hate to see a company go out of business.
YOU know good and well (or maybe you dont, not knowing much of anything) that if
SIRRIUS TANKS IT WONT BE OVERNIGHT.
But it will be soon.

Less than five months to go pix.

I have XM in my new car and I'm just loving the fact that there's not one commercial, and they're playing the Rock music that had such a profound influence on me while I was growing up. I have presets set to deliver music from the 60's, 70's & early 80's.

[markw]

We just got Free XM for three months in our new Hyundai and I gotta agree with Rich. It's addicting.

So addicting in fact that we're considering continuing the subscription when the feee expires and getting a hidden under-dash converter box for my after market radio so i can get it in mine as well.

[Rich-n-Texas]

I try to stay up-to-date with the goings-on at Sirius/XM on the AVS forum. I don't think it's proper to link to competing message boards but there's an entire sub-forum there. Different people say different things about the future, but giving it negative press like pix does helps nothing. I'm subscribed to it at home, it's free in the car until the end of June so hopefully by then things will become more clear.

[Ed_in_Tx]

Maybe they will hang in there. If you had bought SIRI stock 3 months ago on Feb 12 at less than 6 cents a share, you'd have a nice little gain today at 50 cents!

[pixelthis]

Maybe they will hang in there. If you had bought SIRI stock 3 months ago on Feb 12 at less than 6 cents a share, you'd have a nice little gain today at 50 cents!

MAYBE they will, I will certainly hope so for the sake of better choices for the consumer,
but I doubt it.
As for Richie and his acid flashback, I too listen to the classics in my car, new invention called an MP3 player, at 320 kbs Q is a lot better.
The only way to listen to Bowie, hendrix, BST, etc.

[Rich-n-Texas]

MAYBE they will, I will certainly hope so for the sake of better choices for the consumer,
but I doubt it.
As for Richie and his acid flashback, I too listen to the classics in my car, new invention called an MP3 player, at 320 kbs Q is a lot better.
The only way to listen to Bowie, hendrix, BST, etc.

"New invention"? "MP3 player"? Reeeeeelly? The only way to listen to Bowie is from an MP3 player? You should stick to managing your 20 zombies dumbass.

Get in the car, start the car, and classic rock starts playing. No setup time required.

You just don't know when to STFU do you dumbass?

[pixelthis]

"New invention"? "MP3 player"? Reeeeeelly? The only way to listen to Bowie is from an MP3 player? You should stick to managing your 20 zombies dumbass.

bEATS PAYING 12 bucks a month for radio




Get in the car, start the car, and classic rock starts playing. No setup time required.

SO simple I bet EVEN YOU can figure it out


You just don't know when to STFU do you dumbass?

Look at the pot calling the kettle black.

[Rich-n-Texas]

If they are still here in six months I will be happy to do so, hate to see a company go out of business.
YOU know good and well (or maybe you dont, not knowing much of anything) that if
SIRRIUS TANKS IT WONT BE OVERNIGHT.
But it will be soon.

Speak up dumbass! I turned my receiver on yesterday, tuned to XM channel 40, and what do ya know? Music came out of my speakers.

So I guess you were wrong, huh Dumbass?

[Feanor]

RnT, where ya been?

Haven't seen you around much. Have you been touring the town hall meetings fighting the menace of socialist health care?

[pixelthis]

RnT, where ya been?

Haven't seen you around much. Have you been touring the town hall meetings fighting the menace of socialist health care?

Probably in a "resort" under medical obsevation(which obviously didnt help much)
Well, the two sat services merged(one died, the other got the organs and is on life support)
so I was right, at least close.
And you never hit the target at all, t least thats what your woman told me.

[E-Stat]

...so I was right

No, what you said was sat radio is dead (in a large font to somehow bring validity to the claim). As Mark Twain would say, "The reports of its death are greatly exaggerated".

rw

[Rich-n-Texas]

Probably in a "resort" under medical obsevation(which obviously didnt help much)
Well, the two sat services merged(one died, the other got the organs and is on life support)
so I was right, at least close.
And you never hit the target at all, t least thats what your woman told me.

Uhhh... no dumbass, neither one died. You weren't close, you were wrong. Admit you were wrong like you said you were going to do, instead of trying to deflect by saying things like this: "Probably in a "resort" under medical obsevation(which obviously didnt help much)", and "And you never hit the target at all, t least thats what your woman told me."

Do you not realize by now that people have you figured out? All I did was reinforce what's already known, loser.

[Luvin Da Blues]

Uhhh... no dumbass, neither one died. You weren't close, you were wrong. Admit you were wrong like you said you were going to do, instead of trying to deflect by saying things like this: "Probably in a "resort" under medical obsevation(which obviously didnt help much)", and "And you never hit the target at all, t least thats what your woman told me."

Do you not realize by now that people have you figured out? All I did was reinforce what's already known, loser.

Good to see you back, Rich. Gunna hang for a bit?

[Rich-n-Texas]

Hey LDB. I was told things were "nice" around here ( ) before I checked back in, and that I might get banned so who knows. I was soooo looking forward to coming back to this thread to prove pixie wrong, again... mission accomplished.

BTW, for those who care, Sirius XM is offering $77/yr plans, and if you go to their website you can find out what's included. They recently raised the price of my "Mostly Music" package $2/mo, but I can live with it. Still better than listening to commercials.