You know, since posting this whole rumored Stern/SEC subpoena thingy, I've been flooded with a ton of "love letters" from many extremely crazed and unstable happy and chipper investor-types. I've been so taken by the crazyness joy that I really haven't had the chance to post anything today. Madness!

Now here I am, stuck wondering how to reply to all these email - having tried so hard to reply to them on a one-on-one basis. And suddenly it occurs to me. Goddamnit, I'm a blogger, and blogging is all about transparency. It's what I do. So what a better way to get all this off my chest then to post some of the best emails I've gotten over the past 18 hours.

So, if you've got some time to burn, follow the jump and be prepared for some very long, and somewhat insane reading. After which, we will resume our regularly scheduled entries about the satellite radio industry and I'm going to stop wasting my time responding to lunatics lovely people. Sound like fun?

So it's pretty certain now that the "photo" from this weekend's XM Video news is most definitely a Photoshop job (though, I'll stress again, that the information on the Video Device is in fact real). Just observe from below.

Exhibit A. The upcoming Samsung Nexus XMP3 player.

Exhibit B. Someone's weekend Photoshop project for an XM Video device:

Exhibit C. Another "photo" from an "anonymous" source showing exactly how easily it's done...

So let's have a little fun with this shall we?

Announcing the Orbitcast Photoshop Madness contest.
Submit your own Photoshops of what you think the XM Video device would look like. And with any contest, you need to have prizes. So we'll pick 8 lucky winners who will each receive their very own Speck Products Skin-Tight Skins for the Sirius S50 or MyFi that I just happen to have left over from the review I wrote a lil' while back. I have 4 MyFi skins (2 clear, 1 blue, 1 pink) and 4 S50 skins (2 black, 1 grey, 1 blue) that I'll give away in a first come / first serve basis.

What's the rules? Take an existing photo of a satellite radio receiver (no iPods or fake Origamis please) and stretch it, clone it, cut it and paste it to make it look like a plausible video player. Sound good? Deadline to submit is by Friday, March 10th.

Photoshop Fodder:
Samsung Helix
Pioneer Inno
Samsung Nexus
Sirius S50
Xact ReGo