Via Orbitcast, I’ve been introduced to this announcement from DirecTV:
On February 9, 2010, DIRECTV customers will have a new source for their favorite music channels. SonicTap will continue to deliver the same crystal-clear sound and programming variety that DIRECTV viewers have always enjoyed. And SonicTap features even more music channels with no interruptions.
XM has been on DirecTV since November 2005. I was pleased when they replaced the prior service, as I was a rather pro-XM person at the time. However, since the Sirius-XM merger (and resultant dilution of XM play lists), and my having fallen victim to the iPhone horde… meh.
SonicTap is an iteration of the DMX music service I was acquainted with back before Comcast wanted to charge me a few thousand dollars to dig up my driveway over a signal quality issue, sending me to join the DBS crowd. It was OK, I guess; kind of like XM is now, post-Sirius.
The DirecTV announcement includes the new channel mappings, for those who might be curious.
[As I don't know if you read comments on the LJ feed...]
Well, at least they are keeping the Showtune channel, although I have no idea whether the quality will go down as it did when XM went to Sirius. What may be more telling is the impact of this on XM/Sirius — this means they are losing an income stream, and are already marginal. Could it be putting them over the edge?
It sure would be great if you would make findind the Listing for Sonic Tap able to be found. How about some help???
Tom
I do not like Directv music now. Bring back XM Radio music. I always listened to Escape channel 819, but now it is gone, and nothing now on Sonic like Escape, or easy listening.Not happy.