Cable or Satellite - Which Is The Better Choice?
by Galen Randel
For ten years I was a very unhappy cable TV customer. Despite the promise of great picture quality, I was never impressed with the reception I was receiving. Complaining to the cable television company never did any good. I was always told that everything was working just fine.
For me, cable television service meant frequent price increases. It seemed to me that they were raising the price of the service every few months even though the service was not improving and they were not adding new channels to my programming package.
Cable TV has probably come a long way since I was a customer almost ten years ago. The picture quality is probably improved greatly thanks to digital cable. I do know, however, that they still like to increase prices frequently. Since the only option for high-speed Internet in my area is from the cable television company, I remain a reluctant cable customer today.
For an unhappy cable TV customer like me, I knew I had to try satellite television. I chose Dish Network because I liked their programming packages better than the other satellite service.
My Dish Network service has been outstanding for the last nine years. I remain a very happy Dish Network customer and can report that I have had to deal with very few problems since I have had it. I experienced many more problems and outages with cable than I have with Dish Network.
The cable TV companies love to make up stories about how bad weather can disrupt satellite TV service. Yes, it's true that bad weather can cause problems with satellite television, but in my experience this is a rare occurrence and it only happens with very bad weather, which we do not see very often. Don't let the cable television companies fool you into thinking that satellite TV service has a lot of problems with weather-related outages.
Even though the cable companies like to say that satellite TV is subject to a lot of weather-related outages, it's actually the opposite that is true. I was a cable customer long enough to see my share of outages when a traffic accident knocked a pole down or a bad storm caused a tree to fall on the wires and bring them down.
Since you do not have to worry about wires or telephone poles being knocked down, outages are less frequent, and more importantly, a lot shorter with satellite TV when compared to cable television. I can recall cable TV outages that lasted for days following a major storm. Sure, without electric power, you are usually not able to watch TV, but in my experience, the cable TV outages always lasted longer than the power outages, and if you happen to have your own generator, you can continue to watch satellite TV even if the power lines are down.
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