Sirius and XM Satellite Radio Merger?

[wild1poet2]

As more rumors heat up about a possible merger between Sirius and XM I am wondering what happens if you have a Sirius radio now. Can they merge the technology? Will you have to buy new receivers?

Any ideas.

[Perfectlap]

well they already sell adapters that will allow you to run either in your car
(some people actually subscribe to both). So I imagine it will only require
a hardware upgrade.
A merger makes sense so that they won't have to spend all this money
marketing against each other. But as a consumer mergers in fields with few players are usually not good.

With the auto makers making it part of standard audio equipment, I think satellite radio is going to become a huge business. I've had Sirius for about 2 years now ocassionaly I forget to bring the unit with me in the Boxster and man do I quickly realize how bad free radio sucks, one commerical after another and the same song being played multiple times in a single hour. If they can figure out a way to stream it to new generation low battery consumption cell phones with MP3 of course for satellite radio portability that would really change things in a hurry.
I can record streams with my current MP3 player plugging it directly into the aux. port of my Sirius tuner. Verizon, Blackerry, Microsoft Zune and Sirius should all get in a room and work it out.


http://reviews.cnet.com/Sirius_Stiletto_100/4505-6490_7-32025612.html
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[Perfectlap]

WOW.....very sad. I just realized that the CNET editor reviewing the Sirius player in the clip I posted is the same James Kim who died in the Oregon Wilderness trying to find help for his family. I was just reading a story about how he was found less than a mile from a fishing lodge when I put the face in the CNN story together with the face millions have watched in his many electronic gadget reviews for a while now. really terrible.