[icecold]

no commercials is worth $10 for me

[glock rocks]

Absolutely. XM rocks!

[Ciexyz]

XM-radio, the competition, is $9.95 a month. Sirius is $12.95, and how long do you think it will stay that way, with Howard Stern getting a $100 mil contract and Mel Karmazin getting who knows how much?

I was seriously pricing the two systems, Sirius and XM, just at the time that Stern made his move. That stopped my efforts cold.

Sure, commercials are annoying. But it's still cheaper to hang on local talk radio. Price is the bottom line for me.

[don'tspeak4me]

"no commercials is worth $10 for me"

Most definitely! My Chrysler 300C has Sirius free for a year. I love it. I will definitely renew when my year is up. I never listen to regular radio in the car anymore.

[LibertarianInExile]

Sounds like there are regular drivers out there that will pay for it, I guess, and that's good. I'd much prefer that information get spread in myriad ways. But I do think the masses will probably not buy in until it's cheaper. I had the same suspicions about Iridium, and while that was useful for plenty of folks, it went bust.

This probably has a wider market based on the response, however.

[CJ Wolf]

Actually I hear commercials on XM. I don't know anything about sirrus, but I bet Stern will be taking the same amount of breaks during his show.