bababooey Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I had my system installed a couple of years ago and I passed on the multi tuner for two reasons: (1) we don't really listen to AM/FM radio any more and (2) the XM add-on wasn't necessary for us because we're Sirius subscribers and we implemented a dedicated DirectTV standard-def receiver to play DirectTV XM stations as C4 "Radio" options.Aside from the fact that there's no 2-way communication between the DirectTV receiver and C4 (e.g. display artist, song, etc), we've been very happy with the solution. The 1-way communication of simply selecting a station has been sufficient.Now that the Sirius/XM merger is complete, I would like to formally request an updated multi-tuner and/or updated add-on that can tune to the new Sirius/XM source. Sirius CEO Karmazin said yesterday (7/29) that they are going to introduce new equipment (that can carry both signals) in the next few months.I know C4's hardware release cycle is slow but I was hoping for some feedback from C4 regarding this issue.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChefTel Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I second that request! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takitezsdc Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I THIRD that request! Thanks C4 in advance!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panamagixxer Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 4th the request Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Agreed. Would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Any updates on this? Im hearing subs of both sat services say that they get some of the other provider's channels now. How does this work with the XM module? My boss has a subscription to Sirius already, and was wondering if we could use the same subscription somehow with the Control4 piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrader Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 It appears as though both the XM and Sirius tuners now tune each others channels, or actually a combined channel list. But, with the Control4 tuner being a native XM tuner, I don't think you can use a Sirius subscription... yet.http://xmradio.com/onxm/lineup.xmchttp://www.sirius.com/newlineup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slemay Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Sirus and XM are still different tuners (in both the Control4 world and the real world).As of today - a bunch of Sirus channels are now available to ALL XM tuners - and a few "select" channels (called the "best of") are available for a few extra dollars a month.All of these work on generation 1 up to the most recent XM tuners.The same holds true for Sirus.What's changed is that Sirus and XM have dropped a lot of their duplicate channels and combined them into one channel (why have two different 80's channels - now they're both the same channel being broadcasted on both Sirus and XM tuners). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 So if we only have a sirius account, we either have to cancel and sign up for XM and change out our hardware, or wait for C4 to make a sirius tuner or a "universal" tuner that would work with both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slemay Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Correct... and I have not heard ANYTHING regarding a Sirus tuner anytime soon. I know the new v2 Tuner only has XM at this time. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikey78 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Correct... and I have not heard ANYTHING regarding a Sirus tuner anytime soon. I know the new v2 Tuner only has XM at this time. Sorry.Is the new V2 tuner shipping yet? If not, any idea when? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slemay Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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