Many cars with built in CD/Radios have RDS (Radio Data System) built in, even in the cheap stuff. I wonder why they didn't integrate that into our TL's. I know the NAVI one does not have one, does the non-navi have RDS? There are many times I get sick of XM and wan't to listen to FM radio.

Thanks

 

You can still listen to FM....


I know what you mean though. It's nice having the additional song info etc. on the screen/display. Had it in my Maxima but not very many stations actually broadcast it either. Some transmit all the info others just a portion.. Maybe Acura is waiting until it's a standardized format or something - just speculating... I don't really know much about it.

Maybe in 2007

 

it would have been a nice 5 dollar add-in...i would have paid 5 dollars for it...come on

 

have you ever listened to sirius????

i actually thought sat radio was a stupid 12 dollars a month to spend, but that was when I'd only heard my buddy's XM.

I got sirius for stern, and as a nice side effect, the music in my opinion is far superior to XM

I bet if you'd try the other service you'd never need to listen to FM again ever

that's really sad to me that a service you'd pay 13 bucks a month for would be more boring than standard free radio with commercials (sat radio has commercials on talk stations)

 

LOL, I agree. I have dish network at home with Sirius Radio and I LOVE IT. I only kept the service because it was a good deal if you signed up for a year. It was like $77 or something. I wish there was a way to change out the receiver for the XM radio. Once the service is over I will buy a Sirius Radio. No doubt.

 

I guess we don't have RDS because some executive at Acura made the financial decision that it wasn't worth spending another few cents across 60-70k cars a year.

It's not a big deal to me because I almost exclusively listen to XM now....most of the time lately CNN and the comedy channel (150).

 

I was Just talking about this with my guys at work last night. Even cheap cheap GM cars have this...Saturns and bottom of the line Chevy and GMC Pickups. WHat gives?

 

I thought of this to, I figured there was some setting somewhere, but I guess there is not. Does anyone know if the TL has that new HD FM?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...o/1279691.html

Even the quality on the SAT radio doent match that of CDs.

 

After buying some DVD-A discs I cant compare anything 2 channel that includes XM. Well anyway hwo about CD-TEXT? I guess Acura didn't want to add that "made in taiwan" chip because it costs $999,999,999 dollars?

 

I wouldn't be suprised if XM told them not to put it in because it may decrease the # of subscriptions. If your FM radio gives you track info for free it kind of takes away the advantage of XM which costs $$.

 

 

I don't know about others but my main complaint about FM radio is not that they don't show the title and artist of the song, it's the never ending and annoying commercials. Even if we had RDS, I would have still subscribed to XM. Since I got my TL, I haven't listen to FM radio for more than 10 minutes.

 

yeah my last car had this in the basic audio system....can't believe its not in this car's high-tech audio system.

 

Point taken but there's many times when I flip through all the stations I normally listen to and there's crap on each station and I end up putting on a cd so it's a toss up.