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[AzCivic]

music isn't the only reason people listen to radio, and who wants to buy every single song they listen too? people are going to continue to have both songs they buy and the radio they can just listen too for talk shows, news, new music, different music they've never heard, etc.

the two of them already have about 10million listeners so there must be quite a few who like radio.

[GT40FIED]

Howard Stern...meh. Satellite radio...meh. I can do without either one. I just don't see the point in radio period. Sure, satellite is uncernsored and commercial-free...but so are my CDs.

I'm with Robert. I don't want to have to go out and buy the tuner and THEN fork over more money for the subscription just to find out whether I like it or not. That's like paying for a year's subscription to an Asian film channel because I might like a movie they show every now and then.

I guess 10 million is a lot...even though it's less than 3% of America's population. I do think satellite will win out over commercial radio eventually, but that's a long ways away and they'll have to fix some issues they've got before people really get interested.

While I'm thinking about it, what's up with fucking iPods? First of all, they're overpriced and they have tons of technical bugs (not the least of which is their non-replacable battery problems and numerous computer interface problems) and there happen to be better, cheaper, easier to use MP3 players out there. Besides, do you really need 20 gigs of storage so you can listen to music on your way to class? Or even 5 gigs? Hell...512MB would work fine for me...and I like some diverse shit. Even my digital camera has an MP3 function so, with a 512MB card in it *BOOM*, I beat your shitty iPod. I really think Apple just likes to introduce overpriced and shitty products so people can feel all upper-crust when they buy them. Fuck the iPod.

[Mischief]

Originally Posted by GT40FIED

While I'm thinking about it, what's up with fucking iPods? First of all, they're overpriced and they have tons of technical bugs (not the least of which is their non-replacable battery problems and numerous computer interface problems) and there happen to be better, cheaper, easier to use MP3 players out there. Besides, do you really need 20 gigs of storage so you can listen to music on your way to class? Or even 5 gigs? Hell...512MB would work fine for me...and I like some diverse shit. Even my digital camera has an MP3 function so, with a 512MB card in it *BOOM*, I beat your shitty iPod. I really think Apple just likes to introduce overpriced and shitty products so people can feel all upper-crust when they buy them. Fuck the iPod.

just because you only want to have a couple songs with you while I prefer to carry my entire play list with me the iPod sucks? makes sense. almost..

[GT40FIED]

Originally Posted by Mischief

just because you only want to have a couple songs with you while I prefer to carry my entire play list with me the iPod sucks? makes sense. almost..

I guess my question would be do you really NEED your whole playlist at all times? I mean..I can fit a few hundred songs onto a 512MB flash card. No way I'm going through that on a plane or on my way to class. The video ones would probably be more fun (and a lot more expensive) but they've still gotta have the battery problems. Over the holidays at work we sold iPods and Creative MP3 players (can't remember the names) and we sold 5 Creatives for every 1 iPod. Maybe people are starting to wise up.

Anyway...back OT. Rob...I'd say that XM or Sirius *might* duplicate what happened with cable, but it'll take a lot longer. Think about it...there's really only a handful of genres of TV and movies to show on cable. Chances are that at any given time, with only a few more channels on TV, people could find something they liked on. Music and radio has tons of genres and even more sub-genres. And there's no garauntee that you'll even like a song/talk show topic/whatever even if you happen to like that genre. I remember someone telling me that there's a speed metal channel on satellite radio...there can't be more than 50 people tuned into that at any given time.

[Mischief]

Originally Posted by GT40FIED

I guess my question would be do you really NEED your whole playlist at all times? I mean..I can fit a few hundred songs onto a 512MB flash card. No way I'm going through that on a plane or on my way to class. The video ones would probably be more fun (and a lot more expensive) but they've still gotta have the battery problems.

Do I absolutely NEED it? no.. but is it convenient having all my songs on it already instead of having to constantly plug it in and re-do my playlist everytime I want a change of music on there? yes.. and to me it's worth the cost.. and I don't know what battery problems you're talking about, I know the first gen ipods had problems but I've never heard of problems after that, I know I never had any and no one I know that has an iPod has any problems with them.