I do hope you are wrong Heather and Bob but I think not!
For now at least, I do have some degree of selectivity in my music but I too fear it won't be long before both merge and sell out.
Commercial free music in a selectable format or jandra (Spelling) is the best a vintage audio freak could ask for.
I have 4 or 5 stations programed in and don't have to listen to all the garbage between songs. For this I am willing to pay the $10/month.
Ever notice how on what ever system you get your TV signal from you can't switch between any 3 stations and not hit a commercial break? We are paying more and more to be seduced by commercials and a show that is truely 25 minutes of content takes a full hour when the commercials are added.
I find more and more that me and my friends just buy DVDs and pass them around rather than to subject ourselves to the nightly onslaught of Bill Mays hawking nutty putty or every auto manufacturer shoving their junk down our throats so we need every pill known to man to be able to get through our miserable existance without Viagra.
Soon, if you are not hooked to some sort of direct connection there will be no such thing as over the airwaves except for the cell phones that can do everything from making a call to taking pictures and going on line to get your emails or text a message. Go out tomorrow and just try to by a cell phone that has large enough numbers for a senior to see and does absolutely nothing but make and answer calls.
I am not at all adverse to new technologies but I happen to believe if I want a phone that is just a phone or I want a station that plays nice jazz I ought to be able to find them without having to spin my vinyl or constantly be my own DJ flipping CDs.
XM was as close as I could get to what it was I wanted.
XM was a breath of fresh air for me but it won't last
Gary