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Panasonic 50-Watt Sirius® Radio-Ready CD Receiver with Changer Controls, 3D LCD and 2 Pre-Amp Outputs (CQDF903U)

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I have had the frustrating journey too of learning the hard way about the CR-SRT100 SSR Receiver. It also goes by designation of CR-ZX0161Z. I was able to obtain it by buying a used CR-SRF100 which is the SRT100 plus a Control Display Unit(CDU)which is for non Sirius ready units. I then figured out that the supplied wiring harness (M2C457018) that you connect to the CDU is different than the one you use for hooking up the SRT100 to a Panasonic Sirius ready head unit.That harness is the M2C457019,which,thank God,you can purchase for a pricey $32.17 at www.PASC.Panasonic.com. I love my car stereo and was willing to do all this. If given another try at building a stereo system with the intention of using it to use Sirius or XM I would go with another brand where there are deals that throw in a FREE Satellite tuner with your head unit purchase. Hope this was helpful. TML

Get Kenwood or Audiovox instead. The newer 2004 models that are coming out from Panasonic are no longer Sirius-ready. I confirmed that talking to their support line today.

Trying to locate the necessary Panasonic receiver (CR-SRT100) to go with this head unit for Sirius service is near impossible now as it is no longer in any retail stores and has been discontinued. You might find it on Ebay or some obscure web sites overpriced, but you might also have problems getting other parts as well, such as a TERK SIR-SP splitter needed to hook up this hard-to-find CR-SRT100 receiver to an TERK SIR3 Sirius Satellite antenna that is equally impossible to find now in retail outlets.

Panasonic already burned older 3DO customers with backing out of their M3 gaming console product when the Playstation took over the market. Don't let them do the same to you if you want Sirius radio support from them.

the item was in good condition but the seller didnt include the wiring harness so this item is useless 2 me and i hav 2 pay an extra 20 nuks 2 get one. kindve disapointed

3/22/05
Just wanted to advise Amazon users that, for reasons known only to himself, Eduardo Nietzsche has posted slanderous statements about me on several items available on Amazon.com. I wrote my honest (albeit, excited) review of Sirius vs XM in February 2004 and posted to several items related to the services. It recently came to my attention that Mr. Nietzsche, in his divine omniscience, has declared to the world that I (Roy Givens III) "...[am]obviously an employee of Sirius" (I am not.) He then referred to my review as "...a pitiful, brainlessly-obvious fake" and called me a "goon".
He then admits that he owns neither system, yet he gives XM 3 stars. Footnote: in my Feb 2004 review I pointed out that by XM giving up their commercial advertising they would have to raise their prices. They did indeed raise prices on February 28, 2005, to the same $12.95 per month as Sirius...exactly as I had predicted one year earlier in my review (below).

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(Feb 2004 review)

First of all, NONE of the music channels on Sirius have commercials. As far as the $3.00 a month subscription difference between Sirius and XM, just wait. XM is dropping their ads soon and they're going to have to make up that revenue somehow. Guess who's gonna pay for it? XM subscribers, that's who. So, don't get too used to that $9.95/mo XM rate, because it's going up. Anyway, here's what I like about Sirius: crystal clear digital reception, a wide variety of in-genre music streams (16 different streams in the "Rock" category alone) and, starting this year, all the NFL games each week. They already carry the NBA and NHL, so Sirius is a sports fan's dream. The docking systems work great, too. I've got a docking kit connected to my stereo at home and another one in my car, so I just pop the Here2Anywhere receiver out of the living room kit and plug it into the car kit to listen to on the way to work every day. When I get home, I take the receiver inside and pop it back into the stereo. The unit has 24 channel presets and it remembers them no matter where it's docked. Sirius is great. I signed up for two years of service and I'm glad I did.