Unitedtristar From United States, joined May 2004, 934 posts, RR: 6 Posted (3 years 8 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1416 times:
I am surprised that no one mentioned this earlier. I saw this in a recent hemispheres magazine that my friend from UA gave me. UA started to use the XM Satellite Radio programing (for all channels except 9). I would think these are prerecorded snips of these stations due to limitations of the current systems but hopefully this is a glimpse of what is yet to come.
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Asuflyer05 From United States, joined Feb 2004, 2146 posts, RR: 3 Reply 2, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 1096 times:
Sounds like a good move for both companies. UA improves its inflight experience and XM can promote its product. I wonder if it is a sign UA is considering the addition of live XM similar to B6 and FL?
XM handles the music channels for one of the Satellite TV companies. It is live content. I doubt they will carry every channel, just a few of the more popular ones. If UA uses the same audio controls, then there should only be a few channels.
AviatorTJ From United States, joined Jul 2003, 1801 posts, RR: 13 Reply 5, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 876 times:
Hopefully we'll start seeing the real deal in-flight soon. As great as Channel 9 always is on my flights, having some good XM dance station rocking down the runway is pretty, pretty, pretty good. FL sold me on that system before we even left the ground.
FA4UA From United States, joined Nov 2003, 812 posts, RR: 28 Reply 10, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 556 times:
I wonder if UA paid for this or if XM did and wrote it off as promotions?
I think this is such a great idea! United is an airline, XM is in the music business-- let's let the experts do what they do best! XM, bring us your content, we'll run the planes, you give us the beats!
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CTHEWORLD From Mayotte, joined Dec 2004, 478 posts, RR: 4 Reply 12, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 453 times:
The XM service on UA is great, just had it on a flight two days ago, the selection of music and sound quality is greatly improved...and yes, channel 9 is still from the cockpit. Good and inexpensive move on UA's part. As far as Sirius vs. XM, having had both for about 2 years, I would take XM, as they satellite coverage is more consistent and sound quality is far superior.
Wjcandee From United States, joined Jun 2000, 3744 posts, RR: 19 Reply 13, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 408 times:
Well, I hope that people don't confuse United's psuedo-XM with FL's REAL XM. If I were FL, I'd be absolutely FURIOUS with XM for permitting this, as it dramatically dilutes the perception of what is available on my FL aircraft. "Well, I had that on United and it wasn't so great." Grrrrr.
Srbmod From United States, joined Mar 2001, 14184 posts, RR: 61 Reply 14, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 369 times:
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Quoting ERAUgrad02 (Reply 11): I wish an airline would do SIRIUS. I like it better than XM. Just prefer it since ive had it 5yrs.
Damn straight. I think Sirius will eventually enter that market niche, but they are a bit of perfectionists when it comes to their equipment (Which is why they don't have a portable device along the lines of what XM offers, as they want it work right from the start), so who knows when they'll roll out their IFE version.
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