Will New Toyota Prius XM radio display 16 char in 2005 Prius?

The guys at Vais (who make an aftermarket XM integration solution) claim that it is a limitation inherent to
the Prius.....but I think that's bunk.
If you have a CD encoded with CD text you'll notice that you can get much more
than 10 (or 16) characters of information displaying on the title & artist lines.....so that
tells me that the MFD is definately capable of displaying more than 10 or 16 characters.
A better explaination I've read about is that the limitation is imposed by what digital info
the Sat tuner is sending to the display. The current integrated Sirius tuners are only sending 10 characters per line, the newer integrated XM tuners are sending 16. Both of these seem un-necessarily
truncated in my opinion, because the feed from the satellite includes much more data (like 30-something characters per line). The best thing would be if they made an integrated tuner that diaplays all of the data broadcast (using scrolling if necessary).....don't know why they haven't done this.
From what I've read, you should be getting at least 16 with your setup.

 

According to their website, Coastal's Untimate Lockpick is supposed to unlock it so you'll have 16 characters.

 

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I've done a lot of research on this and I agree. I don't believe it is the radio in the Prius, but the XM receiver. It appears that only the "Next Generation" portable devices support 32 Characters on a line.
In an attempt to confuse the issue, a lot of the XM sales information lists 32 Character support, yea, 16 per line.

From what I read, when XM was setup, it was 16 Characters. Sirius has always been 32 (36?) characters.
For XM to expand they have to send the additional data in a different way, so it is always delayed and it is only for the song title information.

My guess is that Toyota designed the XM receiver a couple years ago, before the "Next Generation."

 

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I have a 2005 Prius with the VAIS SLX and XM Direct. I have 16 Characters per line. The "Solara" XM Radio with the hockey puck antenna is limited to 10 characters. This is what I originally had. It sounded and worked great, but 10 characters simply became annoying.
What I was saying is it isn't the radio but the XM receiver. The XM Direct is limited to 16 Characters per line. My hope is that a new XM Direct comes out that has more characters and I can replace my current one.

 

Will the Coastal Lockpick unlock the text for Sirius? I have a 2008 and factory Sirius, and I only get 10 characters. Truly annoying. I would have gotten a Sirius receiver had I known this!

 

This is the XM display with radio I installed recently from Factory Interactive.