For those of you who have rugrats in the backseat and need something to occupy their minds in order to quiet their mouths, here’s some good news. Sirius’ Backseat TV system has now started shipping from select Sirius retailers. It’s compatible with most of the aftermarket or factory-installed video monitors, and has an integrated FM transmitter/AUX output to provide audio.

With multi-zone operation available, you can now entertain your kids with some cartoons, giving your aching ears a break while you enjoy some music up front with Sirius Satellite Radio. The Sirius Backseat TV SCV1 will cost you $299.99.

Polk Audio introduced today a standalone component tuner for lovers of Sirius Satellite Radio. The new SR-H1000 is priced at around $350 and should be available now.

The Polk SR-H1000 is designed to fit easily into one’s existing audio component system. It can store up to 44 minutes of Sirius audio for later playback, lets you display channel and song information on an external monitor and offers optical digital output so sound quality can be at its best. There’s also an on-board digital to analog converter to assist in better sound performance.

Sirius Radio has announced the release of the Stiletto 2 portable satellite radio receiver/media player. The latest portable radio from Sirius features a rechargeable battery giving up to 4 hours of satellite radio listening time or 20 hours of MP3 playback. The gadget can also stream Sirius radio content from any WiFi hotspot for up to 10 hours of playback.

The Stiletto 2 also features something called SIRIUS Replay which records up to 60 rolling minutes of live radio allowing users to pause, rewind and replay the recorded content.

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This Echo Home Repeater system from Sirius is made to improve the quality of the Sirius satellite radio signal inside your home where you might not be able to get the best signal. It kit comes with an external antenna to mount outside your home to pick up the signal, and then the repeater base that sits inside you home.

The obvious advantage of this is that you can pick up better satellite radio signals inside your house, but in addition if you have multiple radios you aren’t installing a separate antenna for each …

The SR50 SIRIUS Satellite Weather and Audio Receiver from Raymarine gives mariners access to a wide range of advanced weather forecast information from SIRIUS Satellite Radio.

The satellite weather service was introduced last year for Raymarine’s line of E-Series of displays and is now available to C-Series and E-Series lines of multifunction displays. The receiver will give you access to WSI NOWRad weather radar, storm tracks, sea surface temperature, wind, surface pressure, wave heights, lightning and much more.

Captains can view SIRIUS weather forecasts in a full screen or in a window alongside radar, …

Sirius Satellite Radio and rival XM Satellite Radio have announced a $13 billion all-stock merger of equals. Press releases on both companies’ Web sites confirm the merger.

The terms of the agreement state that XM shareholders will receive a fixed exchange ratio of 4.6 shares of SIRIUS common stock for each share of XM they own. XM and SIRIUS shareholders will each own approximately 50 percent of the new company.

The merger is expected to provide greater programming and content choices for subscribers as well as accelerated technological innovations. Subscribers will now …