Delphi SA10035 Roady XM Satellite Radio Receiver
Best $120 spent in a long while (UPDATED 6/8/04)
Well, let me start out by saying that Dennis (the first reviewer) is an IDIOT!!! He is worried about who owns XM stock rather than the product quality? Get a life you loser, who cares if Clear Channel has 8 million shared out of 4.95 billion shares of stock? Wake up and smell the coffee. You suppose to leave a review not issue a stock alert! <br />Now to the meat of things. I have had my XM for 12 hours, and so far I love it! I had problems signing up online. After three attemtps I called, I cussed and they fixed me up and didn't charge me the one time set up fee. So I saved $10. <br />Now I agree with another review, who said beware. Amazon does not offer the freebies. I had been looking at satellite radio for 2 days, and I happened to stop in at Best Buy and they had the roady for $120 and tax. BUT it includes an instant free fm modulator AND they gave me a rebate form to get the HOME KIT for free as well!!! So it is worth the extra $6 and sales tax to go to the retail outlet to pick this up. You dont even have to pay shipping to get the home kit, so Delphi is taking care of business. Hey, Dennis, did you bother to see how many shares of stock Clear Channel owns of Delphi? After all you bought their product, you IDIOT! <br />If my unit went out ever 6 or 9 months, it would not bother me. Long as it is in warranty, what the heck? You get a new unit and a new 1 yr warranty and all you have to do is drive to the store? Sounds like a bargin to me.<br />UPDATE:<br />I have now had my unit for 3 days and I am upgrading it form 4 stars to 5. This thing is flat out awesome. And I learned why you get so many freebies in thew stores, the Roady 2 will be coming out sometime in the next two months. So you might wait and get a thinner, lighter unit that runs stock tickers. So far that is the best I can find on the new features, other than a new lower price. But that can change. Also worthy of note, a little known fact about about the roady you can use headphones. At least I have not found any information that says it will power them, but it does. I tried it out myself. The saleman told me it would not power speakers, you have to have battery operated speakers to work, I am still working on that one.