Comments on: Breaking: DOJ Permits XM & Sirius To Merge

By: BP

BP — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:37:03 +0000

Who cares. They both suck!!! The FCC will take forever to aprove this merger. Then on top of that since both comapnies are bleeding from every orfice with money being wasted neither of them have any money for R&D to make a unified system. I guess after the merger they can layoff thousands employees…..that always helps with companies running in the red.

Also both comanies have very lousy portable devices. Poor battery life, poor internal storage size, some you need to wear a head unit like you are trying to phone E.T. What a joke!!!

Also look out for XM to dump their hardware to current customers………slashing prices by $130 but you can’t return the products….NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!

The only units that are nice are the ones that come in a new car………..which I don’t have.

By: JoN

JoN — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:03:02 +0000

As a big fan of Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fez on XM 202… this upsets me greatly… the mixing of these two companies will not be good for my favorite talk radio.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:18:05 +0000

While I don’t have or want SiriXMus, I am concerned about though who do. Aren’t you worried that without a competitive market the monthly subscription cost will just keep going up and up, while the service quality plummets? Or worse, forced hardware upgrades to go with those perpetual annual fees – ala Microsoft?

I must say I am surprised no one brought up the free XM Online thingy

http://xmro.xmradio.com/xstream/index.jsp

All they want is an email address for each sign-up, and obviously you all have unlimited aliases in your gmail account

By: Gregg

Gregg — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:59:08 +0000

Could not be happier as a subscriber to both.
Current receiver won’t be extinct. You just won’t be able to do the a la carte. However, you’ll be able to add a ‘best of’ from the other guy.

Let’s go FCC….this is going to make the commute even less bad

By: Big John

Big John — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:06:25 +0000

I’ve waited this long, I can wait until Xmas for The Unified Device (or the Satellite Radio Godbox) – Hey it’d be great if they included an HD radio tuner as well…

By: Zach

Zach — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:32:08 +0000

One more hurdle (everyone’s favorite gov body, the FCC) and we’re home free. If they reject it after a DOJ approval, well, I’m moving to Canada…

From what I’ve heard btw, all existing hardware will be able to receive all remaining channels that stay on after the merger. Overlap will be cleaned up (duplicate/very similar channels) but the rest will be available to all. No firm word on pricing yet but supposedly no one will be forced to increase monthly subscription rates. That could mean a lot of things though, so we’ll just have to wait and see.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:11:54 +0000

Stiletto 2 all the way Dave. Sexiest portable I’ve ever owned and it actually works all the time unlike the S50 or Stiletto 10/100.

I’m pumped about the merger. I hope they offer some tiered packages right out of the gates.

By: CJ

CJ — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:59:15 +0000

On an unrelated note, the Netflix website was down all day today. Maybe they need a merger of their own?