[BC] XM v Sirius

[Fred Gleason]

On Monday 16 May 2005 20:25, Phil Alexander wrote:
> Kenwood has a swappable "tuner" a/k/a front end. Plug XM out plug Sirius or
> IBOC in. The big difference is the IBOC front end costs $300 while the sat
> flavor is $60.

I strongly suspect that this is largely an artifact of manufacturing volume.  
If/when IBOC finally takes off, I would expect the cost of all three to 
become roughly the same.  We've seen this same curve many times already (CD, 
DVD, etc).

Cheers!


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