Here is the current description used for both Satellite Radio forums:
"Digital radio via satellite is the latest revolution in broadcast high-resolution audio. Though intended as a medium for car audio as well as home listening, satellite radio boasts a sound quality that is to FM what DVD-Video quality is to standard VHS."
Satellite radio is hardly "high-resolution audio" and I'm not sure it was ever intended to be such a thing. The music on both services is compressed and never sounds as good as a CD, a format that has been supplanted (fidelity wise) by SA-CD and DVD-A.
The fidelity is also not the quantum leap that going from VHS to DVD is. Both FM and satellite radio distort the signals in many ways to squeeze in as much as possible in restricted bandwidth. VHS to DVD was a revelation. FM to satellite radio is much less so, if at all.
The key with satellite radio has never been the sound quality. The thing that drives it is the content. The ad-free music channels. The uncensored comedy. The sports packages. That is what it's all about. Perhaps it's time to re-write the descriptions.
"Digital radio via satellite is the latest revolution in broadcast high-resolution audio. Though intended as a medium for car audio as well as home listening, satellite radio boasts a sound quality that is to FM what DVD-Video quality is to standard VHS."
Satellite radio is hardly "high-resolution audio" and I'm not sure it was ever intended to be such a thing. The music on both services is compressed and never sounds as good as a CD, a format that has been supplanted (fidelity wise) by SA-CD and DVD-A.
The fidelity is also not the quantum leap that going from VHS to DVD is. Both FM and satellite radio distort the signals in many ways to squeeze in as much as possible in restricted bandwidth. VHS to DVD was a revelation. FM to satellite radio is much less so, if at all.
The key with satellite radio has never been the sound quality. The thing that drives it is the content. The ad-free music channels. The uncensored comedy. The sports packages. That is what it's all about. Perhaps it's time to re-write the descriptions.
