1. Why would anyone pay for radio when you can get it free?
2. Get an ipod if you want to hear music.
3. Satellite radio will be gone in 5 years.
"Why would anyone pay for radio when you can get it free"
Presumably don't drive out in the country much.
XM has been nice out in the boonies.
This ones simple.
People will pay to listen to music without commercials.
Ipods suck MP3 players are the way to go.
I hope you are wrong I love my Sirius radio.
Kirby
Same reason people pay for cable tv, though to be honest most of the folks I know who have satelite radio are just sports junkies.
2. Get an ipod if you want to hear music.
I agree with you on that, but alot of folks want to hear songs or talk radio (I'd say get the darn podcast, but to each their own) or whatever else without buying it.
3. Satellite radio will be gone in 5 years.
I highly doubt it, I'm not sure if these 2 knucklehead companies will survive, but I have no doubt satelite radio will be around for the long term. Its going to be similiar to cable TV in some sense, but will need to evolve more (and use the common sense god gives a screwdriver).
Nobody wants to listen to Top 40 crap, commercials, cheesy announcers, etc. when they can listen to non-stop music when they're driving or at home
2. Get an ipod if you want to hear music.
Most people have a catalog of their favorite music on their computer. I can listen to Yahoo Radio for free without spending $200 bucks on an Ipod
3. Satellite radio will be gone in 5 years.
Wrong
DOH! I should have put a < /sarcasm> tag. I have an XM in my house and car - plus I gave two as Christmas gifts in 2006.
1. Because free radio plays the same 6 songs over and over.
2. I like the randomness of radio and the "hey I haven't heard this in a while" effect.
3. No, it will exist in a more streamlined form. People said the same about cable and satellite TV.
Try driving in western states.
3. Satellite radio will be gone in 5 years.
BREAKING NEWS: Cable TV is STILL on the air!
(Boy oh boy..do I remember hearing how Cable was gonna fail...hell..I remember hearing stories how FM was going to fail!)
You've actually answered your own question.
If people are willing to spend money for iTunes or any of the other stores, then they could conceivably pay for satellite radio.
If free radio continues to increase the amount of commercial time, people may turn to satellite stations (not all are commercial-free, but many are)
If music stations keep playing crappy music, people may pay for specialized channels.
And hard as it is to believe, there are people that RIGHT NOW are paying for satelite radio so that they can listen to NASCAR events!! Even I don't pretend to understand that one, but if people will buy that, they'll buy anything!
Satellite radio will be alive and well and possibly thriving in five years.
XM and Sirius, on the other hand, may be long gone by then.
TS
It will be cheaper, if not free, and it will be commercial and heavily so. It will not be gone. Satellite radio is here to stay.
It is commercial radio that will be gone. Satellite radio is just getting started. Your comment that people who want music should 'just get an ipod' begs the question of where will the music in the ipod come from if not a subscription music source....like Satellite radio?
Why do I pay for radio when I can get it for free ?
Let's see. . . When I'm on the road, I'm tired of top-40 bubble-gum dreck. Most of the talk stations with conservatives on are low power, and I'm frequently out of range.
And frankly, listening without constant commercials for local merchants I'll never see, much less patronise, is WORTH a few dollars a month. . .
2. Get an ipod if you want to hear music.
I like to listen to the offerings other than music.
3. Satellite radio will be gone in 5 years.
I don't think this will happen. There is a market out there.
I have XM. If the satellite company wants to increase the number of listeners, it could add programming that broadcasts the audio from network tv. There are lots of shows I would listen to, even if I couldn't view them. With many of them the audio will suffice.
I pay for XM because I like to listen to more than just top 40, rap and country. That's about all that comes across the free stuff here.
Granted, I've been a tad miffed that they advertise that XM is commercial free, when in reality it is not...but there are fewer commercials than on the regular AM/FM channels.
I like that we can be anywhere and not have to go channel surfing to find the local classical channel (or lack thereof).
I like that there are news channels.
I have to say that there are no IPods in my house. I honestly don't even know really and truely what one is...they play MP3's from your computer? Or are they radios? *sigh* I'm probably the only American between the ages of 15-30 who is so clueless about the things. But those wittle bittle ones are kinda cute...whatever they are. LOL
I do hope that satellite radio is still around in 5 years. Heaven only knows where the Army will say my home is next...and the radio choices might really really suck! LOL
~Cail, who is not a sport fanatic :P I've never purposefully tuned into the gazillion sports channels we get.
I like to listen to Sirius radio while I am driving down the toll road.
Sports programming, for one. On the whole, it's cheaper to get XM (which I have) to listen to Major League Baseball games instead of buying the MLB Extra Innings package.
2. Get an ipod if you want to hear music.
Have one of those, too. Often I'll download a song I hear on XM to my iPod. Neat, huh?
3. Satellite radio will be gone in 5 years.
Then again, the richest man in the world once said "650KB of memory is more than enough for personal computing".
1. Well 20 million and counting have decided to flee commercial-ridden, tight-formatted terrestrial radio to have over 100 commercial-free stations in virtually any genre and sub-genre they are in the mood for.
I have an iPod too and it is a great complement to satellite radio. I discover new music on commercial-free satellite radio and download it to my iPod.
In five years, satellite radio will have over 100 million subscribers.