Evan!
Well-Known Member
SWMBO has XM in her car, and it's pretty nice, except that, during the summer, the heavily-leaved trees cause it to cut in and out a lot.
For a long time, I've wondered: remember back in the olden days when we had these contraptions called "compact disc players"? They'd skip a lot. So the portable ones had a feature called "electronic skip protection". It would read ahead on a disc and "store" 20 seconds or more of a song ahead of the current point, and if the player got bumped around, it would rely on this buffer to keep the song from skipping until the jostling stopped.
So, here we are in 2007, and it's all digital. With all the features and crap that satellite radio has, why in the hell can't they set the receivers up to download and store a live buffer, so that when you go under bridges, tunnels and trees, it doesn't cut in and out? Is it a technological limitation of the satellite system? Or have they just not thought of it yet? Or maybe some receivers have it, just not the ones I've seen. What's the deal?
For a long time, I've wondered: remember back in the olden days when we had these contraptions called "compact disc players"? They'd skip a lot. So the portable ones had a feature called "electronic skip protection". It would read ahead on a disc and "store" 20 seconds or more of a song ahead of the current point, and if the player got bumped around, it would rely on this buffer to keep the song from skipping until the jostling stopped.
So, here we are in 2007, and it's all digital. With all the features and crap that satellite radio has, why in the hell can't they set the receivers up to download and store a live buffer, so that when you go under bridges, tunnels and trees, it doesn't cut in and out? Is it a technological limitation of the satellite system? Or have they just not thought of it yet? Or maybe some receivers have it, just not the ones I've seen. What's the deal?