Satelite radio is as standard as am and fm and digital fm and digital am iboc. (in band on carrier- which is the new fm and am radio standard) digital am and fm. Has great sound quality as long as you are in the strong signal areas. Digital am and fm radio however will only travel about 1/2 the distance of the normal am and fm radio signal.
That is one reason this modality has not really caught on yet. The digital am and fm radio signal is much weaker a signal than the normal am and fm signal so in order to listen to high quality digital am and fm you need to be in the strong signal contour areas. And digital am is turned off at night for technical reasons. So bottom line, digital am and fm are completely different than satelite radio. Satelite radio covers a much more broader area.
A satelite channel can be heard in all 50 states at the same time loud and clear. No digital am or fm signal can do this from a regular broadcast station. If satelite radios were standard in every car in the usa, sirius and xm could probably even reduce their monthly price to $5 a month and still make great money as long as more receivers are activated. But then again, the cost of a movie these days is now $8 to $13 depending where you live, so the current $13. 95 for satelite radio per month is really not that expensive.
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