bluecoyote
09-01-2005, 11:41 PM
Music Choice (0 out of 5 - Despite having great video and audio quality on the preview channel, Music Choice is nothing but 6 channels of dissappointment. Audio quality is pretty bad (though this is true of all SprintTV radio stations, so don't expect much) , but so is reliability - often you get "buffering" errors trying to play a station. Reliability is bad relative to other Sprint MM channels.
Worst of all, the content stinks. The pop and R&B channels are pretty much the same talentless drivel you probably purchased this service hoping to get away from. The Rock station doesn't play anything good- 5 days have gone by and not a single song from Oasis, the White Stripes, the Vines, or the Strokes. Plenty of Hoobastank and Papa Roach, though.
Music videos are pointless- usually some crappy R&B group or generic emo rock group- never anything you'd want to hear. To be honest, if it wasn't too late I'd be requesting a refund.
Music news is the only thing interesting, but it's a daily 2 minute clip. Not very interesting.
All in all this is a very piss-poor service.
GoTV (2 out of 5) - What used to be 1KTV is now GOTV. I decided to go with this over CNN2GO because it seemed like it would have a wider variety of content- I really only wanted news to view Katrina coverage. News updates are simply too slow and too few- at 11:00 this morning, the news was still the same as it was at 11:00 this night- kinda inadequate considering every 10 minutes some new story breaks out of NO. I don't give two craps about celebrity gossip - but that's a bigger focus here. The daily dose of stand-up is nice, as is the one-minute clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live, but all in all this isn't a compelling service.
SIRIUS (4.5 out of 5) .. THUMBS UP!!! I just found this out tonight, and man am I glad. Audio quality is the same as Music Choice, but for the same price you get over 3 times the stations. 3 times! Oh, and did I mention that there's something for everyone- AND it's Sirius!?? For those out of the know, Sirius (and XM) has some of the best programming I've ever heard. The oldies stations are fantastic, and you get a choice of stations for popular music. (FINALLY!) The rock station plays... get this... good music!
At $6.00 a month, this is a flat-out bargain (maybe MobiTV is more compelling for the TV buffs) , but next to MobiTV (which up until yesterday was severely lacking in quality to make it compelling) , I can't recommend a better channel.
SIRIUSly consider getting this.
P.S. MobiTV is now available through Multimedia- I'll try it in the upcoming months, but I'll tell you this now- I loved the programming on MobiTV but hated the quality. I think MobiTV (now "Sprint TV Live") is a hands-down winner.
Worst of all, the content stinks. The pop and R&B channels are pretty much the same talentless drivel you probably purchased this service hoping to get away from. The Rock station doesn't play anything good- 5 days have gone by and not a single song from Oasis, the White Stripes, the Vines, or the Strokes. Plenty of Hoobastank and Papa Roach, though.
Music videos are pointless- usually some crappy R&B group or generic emo rock group- never anything you'd want to hear. To be honest, if it wasn't too late I'd be requesting a refund.
Music news is the only thing interesting, but it's a daily 2 minute clip. Not very interesting.
All in all this is a very piss-poor service.
GoTV (2 out of 5) - What used to be 1KTV is now GOTV. I decided to go with this over CNN2GO because it seemed like it would have a wider variety of content- I really only wanted news to view Katrina coverage. News updates are simply too slow and too few- at 11:00 this morning, the news was still the same as it was at 11:00 this night- kinda inadequate considering every 10 minutes some new story breaks out of NO. I don't give two craps about celebrity gossip - but that's a bigger focus here. The daily dose of stand-up is nice, as is the one-minute clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live, but all in all this isn't a compelling service.
SIRIUS (4.5 out of 5) .. THUMBS UP!!! I just found this out tonight, and man am I glad. Audio quality is the same as Music Choice, but for the same price you get over 3 times the stations. 3 times! Oh, and did I mention that there's something for everyone- AND it's Sirius!?? For those out of the know, Sirius (and XM) has some of the best programming I've ever heard. The oldies stations are fantastic, and you get a choice of stations for popular music. (FINALLY!) The rock station plays... get this... good music!
At $6.00 a month, this is a flat-out bargain (maybe MobiTV is more compelling for the TV buffs) , but next to MobiTV (which up until yesterday was severely lacking in quality to make it compelling) , I can't recommend a better channel.
SIRIUSly consider getting this.
P.S. MobiTV is now available through Multimedia- I'll try it in the upcoming months, but I'll tell you this now- I loved the programming on MobiTV but hated the quality. I think MobiTV (now "Sprint TV Live") is a hands-down winner.