New XM Channels

[BW Kernighan]

XM apparently will announce major changes to its channel lineup Monday.

New channels said to include a new classic rock ("Big Tracks"), a "chill"
channel, a new HipHop/RB channel, some latin music, etc. There may also be
one or more channels deleted, but supposedly, more new added than old
deleted.

[Rich]

>>>XM apparently will announce major changes to its channel lineup Monday.

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/big-xm-announcement-coming-on-monday.html

[H Glazer]

BW Kernighan <bwk@nomail.com> wrote in message
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> XM apparently will announce major changes to its channel lineup Monday.
>
> New channels said to include a new classic rock ("Big Tracks"), a "chill"
> channel, a new HipHop/RB channel, some latin music, etc. There may also
be
> one or more channels deleted, but supposedly, more new added than old
> deleted.
>
>

How can they do this without degrading audio quality even more? Has XM won
the race to hierarchical modulation?

[Dr. Droo]

H Glazer wrote:
> How can they do this without degrading audio quality even more? Has XM won
> the race to hierarchical modulation?

If they did, then these new channels aren't going to be available to
existing hardware customers.

--D

[David]

On 25 Feb 2006 13:58:55 -0800, "Dr. Droo" <drdroo@gmail.com> wrote:

>H Glazer wrote:
>> How can they do this without degrading audio quality even more? Has XM won
>> the race to hierarchical modulation?
>
>If they did, then these new channels aren't going to be available to
>existing hardware customers.
>
>--D
>
Legacy hardware is the nomenclature.

[db]

I think it has to do with bandwith used.
Perhaps more was negotiated with the satelitte company.

[BW Kernighan]

> How can they do this without degrading audio quality even more? Has XM won
> the race to hierarchical modulation?


There is little doubt they WILL win it .. whether they have, that's another
issue.

I've heard there will be some deletions, but fewer than the number of
additions. Next month they have the two surround channels coming online, in
addition.

The assumption that H/M will invalidate all previously existing receivers is
not automatically correct. There was an "awareness" that XM was working on
H/M a very long time before Sirius ever mentioned it. The original info I
received on it suggested that, at that time, receivers were already
configured to receive H/M. Have no idea to what extent that is true...

[BW Kernighan]

> How can they do this without degrading audio quality even more? Has XM won
> the race to hierarchical modulation?

A little more info -- apparently, the number of music channels will increase
from 67 to 69, which includes the new Classic Rock channel as well as the
"chill" channel.

The classic rock is a big deal IMO, as it gives them the opportunity to make
Top Tracks a much more focused channel and put some of the 80s/90s crap on
the new channel.

[Ron M.]

"BW Kernighan" <bwk@nomail.com> wrote in message
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> XM apparently will announce major changes to its channel lineup Monday.
>
> New channels said to include a new classic rock ("Big Tracks"), a "chill"
> channel, a new HipHop/RB channel, some latin music, etc. There may also
> be
> one or more channels deleted, but supposedly, more new added than old
> deleted.

They better not drop 'The Boneyard', XM 41!!! ;-)

Ron M.

[BW Kernighan]

>
> They better not drop 'The Boneyard', XM 41!!! ;-)
>

I would think there is little chance of that -- after having dropped LM and
basically left Boneyard to pick up the slack.

[H Glazer]

BW Kernighan <bwk@nomail.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > They better not drop 'The Boneyard', XM 41!!! ;-)
> >
>
> I would think there is little chance of that -- after having dropped LM
and
> basically left Boneyard to pick up the slack.
>
>

It appears that XM Music Lab (progressive rock/jam bands) will get the ax,
along with "neo-soul" channel The Flow. Neither appears on the new DirecTV
lineup.

H.

[BW Kernighan]

> It appears that XM Music Lab (progressive rock/jam bands) will get the ax,
> along with "neo-soul" channel The Flow. Neither appears on the new DirecTV
> lineup.
>

I've seen people mentioning they like the Music Lab but I could never
tolerate it myself.

[David]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 03:13:40 GMT, "BW Kernighan" <bwk@nomail.com>
wrote:

>>
>> They better not drop 'The Boneyard', XM 41!!! ;-)
>>
>
>I would think there is little chance of that -- after having dropped LM and
>basically left Boneyard to pick up the slack.
>
>
That's funny. XM knows nothing about Metal.

[John Doe]

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[David]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:05:58 GMT, "BW Kernighan" <bwk@nomail.com>
wrote:

>XM apparently will announce major changes to its channel lineup Monday.
>
>New channels said to include a new classic rock ("Big Tracks"), a "chill"
>channel, a new HipHop/RB channel, some latin music, etc. There may also be
>one or more channels deleted, but supposedly, more new added than old
>deleted.
>
>
This rumor is the result of some DirecTV announcement, right?

Does this mean these channels will end up on the XM satellites?

[BW Kernighan]

> That's funny. XM knows nothing about Metal.

They know it is junk and practically nobody listens to it. They do know
that much.

[BW Kernighan]

> This rumor is the result of some DirecTV announcement, right?

There is some discussion of the [premature] DirecTV schedule changes, but my
information comes from another place.

> Does this mean these channels will end up on the XM satellites?

Some of the ones on DirecTV's schedule may not -- for example, I have no
idea whether SpecialX is going to be put back on the satellites. However,
the new channels I mentioned are going to be on the satellites.

Some may go away, as well -- this I'm less sure of.

[David]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:00:47 GMT, "BW Kernighan" <bwk@nomail.com>
wrote:

>> That's funny. XM knows nothing about Metal.
>
>They know it is junk and practically nobody listens to it. They do know
>that much.
>
>
It is a very popular genre whose fans are more devoted and much less
fickle than the more disposable kinds of music. Why do you call it
''junk''?

[BW Kernighan]

> It is a very popular genre whose fans are more devoted and much less
> fickle than the more disposable kinds of music. Why do you call it
> ''junk''?

Perhaps it was the wrong term. "Noise" is what I meant. As in "it hurts my
ears and I'd rather listen to Top Fuel dragsters racing down my driveway".

It isn't properly classifiable as music IMO.

[David]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:10:31 GMT, "BW Kernighan" <bwk@nomail.com>
wrote:

>> It is a very popular genre whose fans are more devoted and much less
>> fickle than the more disposable kinds of music. Why do you call it
>> ''junk''?
>
>Perhaps it was the wrong term. "Noise" is what I meant. As in "it hurts my
>ears and I'd rather listen to Top Fuel dragsters racing down my driveway".
>
>It isn't properly classifiable as music IMO.
>

With an attitude like that, no wonder you need to change your name
every 6 hours.

I like it all.

http://www.anus.com/metal/about/history.html

[BW Kernighan]

There are great classical performers who can tolerate headbanging garbage.

Me, I just can't do it.

[BD]

They don't own their own?...

"db" <dbutts@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>I think it has to do with bandwith used.
> Perhaps more was negotiated with the satelitte company.


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[David]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:46:50 GMT, "BW Kernighan" <bwk@nomail.com>
wrote:

>There are great classical performers who can tolerate headbanging garbage.
>
>Me, I just can't do it.
>
>
A least you're a uniform bigot.

[BD]

In most cases, the only difference between a bigot and a non-bigot is that
first one isn't afraid of expressing his feelings because of the current PC
crap.......

"David" <rickets@knac.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:46:50 GMT, "BW Kernighan" <bwk@nomail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>There are great classical performers who can tolerate headbanging garbage.
>>
>>Me, I just can't do it.
>>
>>
> A least you're a uniform bigot.
>


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[David]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:23:32 -0600, "BD" <me@unlisted.com> wrote:

>In most cases, the only difference between a bigot and a non-bigot is that
>first one isn't afraid of expressing his feelings because of the current PC
>crap.......

PC or Mac makes no difference to me. Although I'll always have a
special place for MS-DOS.

[BaJoRi]

"David" <rickets@knac.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:23:32 -0600, "BD" <me@unlisted.com> wrote:
>
>>In most cases, the only difference between a bigot and a non-bigot is that
>>first one isn't afraid of expressing his feelings because of the current
>>PC
>>crap.......
>
> PC or Mac makes no difference to me. Although I'll always have a
> special place for MS-DOS.
>

The garbage can.

[BW Kernighan]

> The garbage can.

There are many, many circumstances where Microsoft will STILL tell you to
"boot to a DOS disk". Consequently, I noticed in my garage several unopened
copies of MS-DOS just today. They aren't going in the trash can just yet...

[David]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:29:06 GMT, "BW Kernighan" <bwk@nomail.com>
wrote:

>
>> The garbage can.
>
>There are many, many circumstances where Microsoft will STILL tell you to
>"boot to a DOS disk". Consequently, I noticed in my garage several unopened
>copies of MS-DOS just today. They aren't going in the trash can just yet...
>
>
I've had industrial control processes running 24/7/365 on MS-DOS for
years without crashing.