I've had XM for about 4 years and had gone thru almost every receiver imaginable until about a year ago when I broke down and bought the Delphi SkyFi2. You buy the receiver, car kit, and home boombox all separately (I think it came to about $250-300 all told, with installation separate -- but my husband is good w/ wires so I skipped that expense).
The reason this was the answer for me was the portability ... I just cart the receiver back and forth between car and home. It pops into the car kit and boombox easily, it fits in my purse, it has neat features like 30-minutes of DVR-like recording and instant replay, both the car kit and boombox have GREAT sound. I don't really listen to XM anywhere but in the car or while I'm working (read: I don't take it with me when walking -- that's what the iPod's for) so I didn't figure the portable would be as flexible as this one. (And of course, there is always XM online for those occasions when I'm away from both the car and boombox but have Internet access.) All of this may have changed in the year or so since I got the setup, so you'll still want to research options, of course. Hope that helps you out a bit. Shawna E. Hampton r(E)-Visions Consulting www.revisionsconsulting.net -----Original Message----- From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 9:47 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Satellite Radio >As far as the unit - don't get a Stiletto from Sirius. Quote from a friend >who has one "They SUCK!" It's pretty and slim, but that's about it. Guess from the replies on this I wasn't clear enough! I wasn't looking for opinions on XM versus Sirius...I would probably go with XM since that's what my home receiver supports and I've generally heard better things about it in terms of reception. Since I'm mainly interested in music, the better sports coverage on Sirius doesn't matter too much to me. I'm just not sure what kind of unit to get...a portable or one of the regular types of receivers. Most you can get a home docking station for but I was hoping for some actual experience with this setup to give me some opinions. Mary Jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:234910 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
