They're failing because they suck... (Score 1)

I haven't seen anyone really touch on this but it's absolutely the case. Most people have really terrible sound systems in their cars but the one in mine is quite good. As such, I can hear the substantial difference in sound quality between sirius satellite radio (I used to have a starmate) and even horrible 128kbit mp3's. Even FM radio has way better sound quality. It's really sad. Couple that with when I was a sirius subscriber years ago, the alternative and techno/trance station I liked repeated songs over and over and over again until my ears bled. There are literally *thousands* of fantastic easy royalty trance song and I swore they played the same 5 over and over again. In the Philadelphia area, a new alternative station ran by clear channel just popped up and it's substantially better than anything sirius ever put out. And the really sad thing is that when I got my unit I did so because Sirius was reputed to have better sound quality than XM.

It's a great idea, and I'd pay for it... But if I am going to pay it better be good. Damn good. And they failed.