DarkStar said:Just checked again this morning and it's still working... 7 months later...
LTLFTcomposite said:My trial subscription was supposedly three months; if they are "sirius" about pulling the plug on me that means it will be ending in the next few days. I get some enjoyment out of it, but not $10/month worth. They just sent me an offer for $30 for six months. No doubt their game plan is to get me signed up with a CC and play the odds I won't notice when they jack the price at the end of that time (they will lose that bet with me). Apparently this is like broadband, to get a good deal you have to plan on futzing around with it every 6-12 months.
From past experience and other comments it seems their system for shutting people off is not very reliable, but they usually manage to eventually kill receivers for which the subscription has lapsed. Unless someone knows of another way to play them I'll see how long it takes them to kill me, then see if they'll do the $30 deal. I have read you can get it for about $70 a year if you work the right process through their customer service. Their incremental cost of serving another customer must be near zero.
TomT said:Mine is still working after almost 8 months...
DarkStar said:Just checked again this morning and it's still working... 7 months later...
LTLFTcomposite said:Since the communication is one way, from my understanding killing a receiver is initially dependent on it receiving a "kill" signal they send down in their data stream, basically turn off all the other channels except preview.
I don't see that post, but what you just said is clear enough. Time will tell; I don't expect it will last indefinitely no matter what.TomT said:I discussed this extensively way back in this thread so I'll not go in to it in detail again here, but there is also a timed mechanism that OEM manufacturers can choose to use for the trial period that operates independently of an off-air signal...
BRBarian said:Uhhh. Watches are obsolete. Why would you even try to advertise old technology stuff in a new technologies forum?
The rest is just crap, and probably counterfeit crap too.
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