[Rob Hood]

OK, I'm up for renewal on my XM subscription, and I've got free Sirius in my VW Jetta for a few more days. Since sampling the Sirius for the last couple of months, I do like their music selection (classic rock and country stations primarily) better than XM. Both carry the same newstalk stations I listen to as well. I do like XM's traffic coverage better than Sirius' for the Phoenix area, however, although IMO neither does a better job of traffic coverage than the local AM/FM stations. Sirius has NASCAR, but since I'm no longer making 7-hour road trips, that's not necessarily a high priority for me. My XM is portable between my truck and Z, but the Jetta is integral to the OE radio and I would rather be portable (which I know I can get with Sirius as well).

So, who has which one and likes/dislikes? Is it a tomay-to/tomah-to issue? Less filling? Tastes great?

[pknowles]

My wife has XM. I bought her XM because at the time (3 years ago) Sirius looked like they were falling behind.

She listens to it on the internet more then in the car. We use it on long trips, but her commute is so short that she doesn't use it driving to work. The FM transmitter is a PINA. Her old car had a tape player, so she could play the XM through that and it worked great. But her newer car doesn't have a tape player, so she has to use the transmitter. When the portible IPOD like XM recivers get a little better, then I'll upgrade her hardware, because the old hardware is flakey (drops signals a lot more then other peoples hardware, randomly shuts off sometimes, freezes a lot so you can't change stations). One day her SkyFi just started doing all that crap, so I know it's not the service.

I listen to 90's rock that you don't hear on the radio anymore, I mean when was the last time you heard a Courtney Love song on FM radio? That's why I like XM. <insert head banging emoticon HERE>