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Personally I prefer and hence why I bought Sirius. If you're going to pay for radio, why not pay a bit more and have no commercials (on music streams). The big thing for me was the fact that I could listen to live streams on Sirius whereas XM it was all prerecorded.
Of course that doesn't mean squat for you. Just pick the provider that has the music/programming you want. Potentially you could like channels on XM which they play commercial free and you're golden.
I have had no interaction with XM or Sirius' customer service so no comment there. For the portables, yeah you'd want to get a home and a car kit. Theoretically you could just get the Carkit with FM mod and bring it in your house if you have a cig. lighter adapter.
For XM you'd probally want the Delphi Skifi. It's a nice unit and you see it everywhere. Has home, car and boombox kits so it is quite versatile. Sony also makes the PnP unit, but I think it will prob be pretty hard to find. You didn't miss much. I'd be remiss to not mention the Roady coming out (September, knock on wood). It is designed for the car only, but it is very small.
On the Sirius side, there is the Kenwood H2A which Josh mentioned and is pretty much similar to the PnP. You'd probably want Audiovox's SRS. It is similar to the SkiFi except it is a bit bigger, has a better display (IMHO), has some features that the SkiFi doesn't, and doesn't have a boombox kit (yet?). It just came out this month so supplies are limited, but most of the CC's have them (if not on display, in stock). The SRS is marginally cheaper than the SkiFi (FWIW).
Either way, satellite radio rocks. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for competition and there are streams on XM I like, but Sirius had more of what I was looking for... hope it works out for you. Let us know how it turns out.
Oh yeah, and definately check out XMFan and SiriusBackstage.
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