Sirius thru GM's XM compatible radio

[Aubs]

Originally posted by MONSTERMATT:
still works the same, i have the kenwood soundgate to gm box, i got it from kodiakz and i think it was cheaper than the one listed with crutchfield, on the soundgate it still displays text and i can use the steering wheel controls too, XM IS LAME

That's good to know.

On the topic of XM IS LAME, I got an email a week ago saying "Yay, it is with great jubilation and rucus that we'd like to introduce X number new stations to our glorious lineup". So, I'm excited, maybe XM will get better. Well, I was suspicous a few moments after I thought that because I noticed that XM was going to start running COMMERCIALS on some of their former music-only channels!!! In May this conversion will take place,and at the very bottom of the updated channel lineup there is this:



So I search for what channels are switching, and I can't find them in the main listing. Finally I notice some channel numbers are missing, and they appear in this box:



Well, they just added:
17. USA Country, '80's and 90's Superstars.
26. Flight 26, Modern Hits 90's and Now.
30. Hitlist, Today's Hit music.

Those essentially replace 22. Mix, 21. KISS, 11. Nashville, 24. Sunny. So they're adding new channels that are the same and adding commericals on the exisiting channels.

As is to be expected, you can now hear the same song on 4 channels instead of 2. I've listened to 21, 22, 26, 30, and they all play the same music, over and over. There is very, very little new variety.

Ok, that's my rant. It's nonsensical, quite conspiracy theory, and maybe my tastes in music are poor. But that's what I listen to.

Also, XM 80's sucks, and now their 90's is pretty bad. SIRIUS 80's is great, and their 90's is alright. The SIRIUS country is quite good though.

On a closing note, I have to ask "When will this end?" I imagine they will slowly introduce channels no one wants to listen to now that they have the suscribers, and then phase commercials into the current lineup.