Need Christmas suggestion help

[El Paso Eagle]

Thanks

[untgirl04]

I was looking at Sirius for my sister for Christmas. After consulting Best Buy, here's what I found out:

Sirius sponsors a wide variety of music stations, including country, rap, oldies, and alternative. Howard Stern is now on Sirius (not sure if that's a plus or minus for you)

XM sponsors a lot of sports and talk radio programs.

All the people I've talked to really like Sirius. But one more piece of advice: don't purchase the lifetime warranty. The warranties attach to the hardware, not the service. So, if your receiver breaks the day after you buy it, your lifetime warranty is gone.

[UNTLifer]

XM is owned by Clear Channel.

[untbowler]

I have Sirius and love it due to Maxim Radio, several NCAA schools play their Football and B-Ball games live, they have the NFL and NBA.

Music Stations have a wide variety and the comedy stations are awesome.

Plus NFL Radio.

[Arkstfan]

If you are baseball junkie, you want XM no need to look further.

If you want NFL games, you want Sirius.

There are a few Sun Belt games on Sirius.

If those aren't factors in your decision, it really comes down to what hardware you like and which contract you prefer.

[Texas Stranger]

Sirius also has Radio Margaritaville, which is every bit as good as its name implies.

[Coffee and TV]

XM is owned by Clear Channel.

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Reason #1 I asked and got it for last year's xmas.

Sirius hands down, and I'm a big baseball fan, but minus Houston I don't care enough to watch/listen to many other games. Sirius also has a Rolling Stones and Bruce Springstein Channel as well.

[stebo]

My whole family (the male portions at least) is gettign Sirius from me this X-Mas... I got a heck of a deal on the portable receivers at Sears - $30 for the whole kit and no rebates to mess with. It was such a good deal I got one for my dad, brother, and brother-in-law... and my fiance' got one for me! Howard Stern was the deciding factor for us, but the NFL games along with the Sun Belt package were big factors as well.

[HoustonEagle]

I chose Sirius about a year ago and have really enjoyed the programming. Personally I think you should chose the one that offers more of what you like outside of music. XM and Sirius have a great music selection (as with the radio). I went with Sirius because I liked their talk radio selection better, they have NPR, I am ok with missing a baseball game but not my football game, and great business channels.

My advice if you go with Sirius is to stay away from the Sportster reciever. I have had some problems with it as well as a couple of my friends. The connections on the back of the reciever for the antenna and transmitter both have a tendency to be intermittent.

Peace

Happy Holidays