Cable or Satellite - Which Is The Better Choice?

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.

Beyond my displeasure with the quality of the reception I was getting with cable TV, I was also not happy about the price increases that the cable company was imposing on me. There had to be at least three increases a year during the time I was a customer.

I'm sure cable television has changed a lot since I was a customer about 9 years ago. Digital cable now provides a better quality picture and "on demand" service provides greater programming choices. One thing that has not changed is the frequent price increases. I know that because I still rely on service from the local cable television company for my high-speed Internet service since it is the only high-speed service available in this area.

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.

One thing I do recall experiencing as a cable TV customer were outages due to traffic accidents that severed telephone poles and weather-related outages due to a wind storm or ice storm bringing down the cable television lines. These outages would sometimes last for days until the lines could be repaired. In contrast, I have never experienced a weather-related outage with Dish Network that lasted for more than 30 minutes.

In my opinion - as both a cable television and satellite television customer - I would select Dish Network as the winner of the reliability contest over cable television without a doubt. With no wires to rely on for bringing the signal to your home, all you really need to watch satellite TV is electric power.

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