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  1. Kevin N

    Petition in favor of XM/SIRIUS merger

    Most of the music stations were dumbed down a bit. Really it's not too different from XM in the past 6 months on most channels, just swinging more towards mainstream hits instead of lesser known artists and songs. I still like it for in the car due to the talk, sports, and play by play stations...
  2. Kevin N

    In anticipation of XM/Sirius merge.....so have we!

    This is from the xm411 merger forum. Personally I am 100% against the merger.
  3. Kevin N

    What title/release would "force" you to buy a HD-player or turn to "format neutral"?

    I imagine if "Run, Fat Boy, Run" ends up on HD-DVD I'll take the plunge, but that's not a single title. That's the other two Simon Pegg movies as well as No Country for Old Men and the Bourne Trilogy. I really can't imagine spending even $200 just to watch one movie.
  4. Kevin N

    Denon AVR-3808CI: An Overview

    Thanks for the reply Ron, and for keeping this site going (not sure I've ever put that out there). At the moment, there's 1599 reasons for me not to get the 3808. :P After Christmas I should be in a better position. It looks and sounds amazing, and I'm curious how it will make my Def Techs sound.
  5. Kevin N

    Denon AVR-3808CI: An Overview

    I'm also still using an AVR-3802, but I'm thinking of upgrading sometime after Christmas. A couple questions: 1) The GUI I'm guessing can be seen through HDMI? Does the receiver show a volume bar on the TV? That's the one thing I really have never liked about my 3802; the absence of any kind of...
  6. Kevin N

    Time to cancel

    I still have XM, but I haven't been listening to it nearly as much. When I do turn it on, I still know about 90% of the songs, which makes it almost useless outside of baseball to me. I've been honestly surprised how good podcasts are getting. I can listen to MLB daily, ESPN radio, etc as...
  7. Kevin N

    Time to cancel

    Well, the main point of me owning satellite was to get clued in to awesome music that I didn't know existed. Seeing as they're moving into the FM top 40 format now, there's no unique music anymore.
  8. Kevin N

    Time to cancel

    Kyle: I don't think anyone wants Ethel to get really obscure; that's for XMU. Maybe a song here and there, but most of it should be relatively popular bands. The problem right now is that they're playing the same songs over and over again. The old Ethel played deeper cuts from popular artists in...
  9. Kevin N

    Time to cancel

    I think the only way that XM will go back to how it was around the Live 8 concerts is if they see much lower than projected growth during this quarter, and a churn rate that at least doubles. My gut tells me that they'll have a record quarter from MLB and new hardware, and will continue to...
  10. Kevin N

    Time to cancel

    Ron: looking at the data from mediabase, Ethel is giving songs as many spins as my local Clear Channel station. Jon Zellner himself said they've received numerous complaints about the obscurity of XM's music channels. I feel as though Ethel is the sign of things to come. XM will eventually be on...
  11. Kevin N

    Time to cancel

    By the way, for anyone who's interested, this is what Ethel's playlist has looked like over the past 7 days: Station Rank Spins Audience lw TW Artist Title TW lw +/- Reach/ Mill 2 1 NINE INCH NAILS Every Day Is Exactly The Same 38 36 2 0.038 13 2 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Crooked Teeth 37 29 8...
  12. Kevin N

    Time to cancel

    XM is moving in a horrible, horrible direction. I would be surprised if most people could identify it seperately from Sirius in an A/B test at the moment. Or at least in the rock station lineup. Ethel, for example, is so damn close to a Clear Channel FM station, that if you threw in ads, it...
  13. Kevin N

    Still not quite happy with rock channels (don't worry, not dumping XM just yet)

    Nickelback, Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, Linkin Park...someone fire Bodhi and get a real PD in there. :thumbsdown:
  14. Kevin N

    Still not quite happy with rock channels (don't worry, not dumping XM just yet)

    mylan: if you're looking for something similair to an iPod, you're better off with Sirius. XM has always played a ton of stuff that is really new or not considered popular with some hits thrown in. Sirius is like the polar opposite of that; they play a lot of hits with new or unknown stuff in...
  15. Kevin N

    Sirius wins with Howard Stern

    She'll be doing a weekly 30 minute radio show. I didn't respond to anything else since you had your facts wrong.
  16. Kevin N

    Sirius wins with Howard Stern

    That's a huge assumption based off of a personal opinion.
  17. Kevin N

    Sirius wins with Howard Stern

    Ok...2.5 million subs...let's do the math (2.5m subs * $311 for 2 years of sub each) - (2.5m subs * $150 lost on each add) $777,500,000 - 375,000,000 = $402,500,000 Howard's payday - money from subs $500,000,000 - $402,500,000 = $97,500,000 loss for Sirius. I would do the math...
  18. Kevin N

    Sirius wins with Howard Stern

    His guess is stupid. Sirius still loses, optimistically, about $150 per add. Using simple accounting, that means they'd have to have almost 3.1 million subscribers add and stay on for 2 years to break even. That's assuming that all $13 go to paying for Stern, which obviously isn't the case...
  19. Kevin N

    I'm THIS close to making the leap... help me with a reciever!

    The problem with the current xm2go's is they're absolutely gigantic. Wait a month or two for the Pioneer Inno or Samsung Helix. They're both about the size of an iPod mini, have the latest and greatest antenna, can record about 50 hours of XM, and/or sync music from your PC. If you absolutely...
  20. Kevin N

    XM lacking in sports coverage

    Ironic that you blast XM using a cliché for the only sport that's just as good on the radio as on TV, and XM has it exclusively. :rolleyes
  21. Kevin N

    Ive had xm for two years now.............

    I only subscribe to XM. I was able to listen to Sirius for 2 weeks at night when I was in Alaska in May '04. My take was that Sirius believes in playing "hits" with a few songs either by artists not normally played on FM or deeper cuts mixed in. XM's philosophy is playing artists and songs not...
  22. Kevin N

    Ive had xm for two years now.............

    I do worry that XM is backpedaling on their philosophy. All it takes is regular listening to Squizz or Ethel to see how bad some of the channels seem to be getting about repetition and not being in touch with the listeners. I mean, unless all of the sudden there was some huge underground...
  23. Kevin N

    XM Satellite Radio Wins Top Honors at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show

    Opie's been sick and unable to do the show; that's why there's been worst of's since Tuesday. I've listened to Stern's show the whole week, and it's an ok show, but just doesn't seem worth cancelling XM and buying a $430 non-live portable radio. I guess if you already didn't like XM as a whole...
  24. Kevin N

    XM Satellite Radio Wins Top Honors at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show

    I really don't think Howard is all that funny anymore. It's more of a chuckle here and a chuckle there. His show does have a more produced and higher quality feel to it, though. I'm only a very recent O&A listener, but I think they're pretty good from what I've heard. Their whole bit with...
  25. Kevin N

    XM Satellite Radio Wins Top Honors at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show

    I think XM's morning talk programming is just as good if not better than Sirius with Opie & Anthony and Bob Edwards. I'm glad I live in the Dallas area, though, because XM's talk in the afternoon sucks...a lot.
  26. Kevin N

    Stern the best thing to happen to Satellite

    He ripped the idea from an O&A listener who sent the original bit into O&A when they aired the tapes unedited back in March. Howard a few days later had a different version made and played with the bleeps in it (same song and concept). For the Sirius show, he played that same one he made back...
  27. Kevin N

    Toss old TV and get new one?

    This is kind of a complicated story, and thanks to anyone who goes through it. Feb of '03 I moved, and something happened with the convergence on my nearly 4 year old Mits 55" TV. I had someone repair it and it worked fine for 10 months, but the convergence is out on it again. I called a...
  28. Kevin N

    favourite bands

    I'll limit it to 10... Led Zeppelin Mogwai The Black Keys Chevelle Pink Floyd Future Leaders of the World Audioslave The Offspring Rage Against the Machine Alice in Chains
  29. Kevin N

    Unofficial "I recommend this song/group" Thread

    Didn't even realize I responded to this until I read through the posts from three years ago. :laugh: Everything that I list will be rock/alt or electronic and 2000 or newer. Just to give you an idea of whether or not you'd be interested. Audioslave - Audioslave (album) The Black Keys -...
  30. Kevin N

    The Mars Volta

    I like The Widow and especially L'Via L'Viaquez, but whoever thought it'd be a good idea to just degenerate into random noise is crazy. I mean, they're such good songs, but ruined by that simple fact. I have no problem with sound effects and long meandering tunes, I mean Mogwai is one of my...
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