While the cable television industry would like you to believe differently, there are a number of disadvantages to cable TV service that can be bypassed or avoided simply by adopting Dish Network as your television service provider.
One of these shortcomings is a limited choice of channels. While there are a few exceptions, most cable TV companies can't offer more than about ninety to one hundred channels. That severely limits the choices of cable TV subscribers and makes them likely to experience the frustration of not being able to find anything worth watching.
By contrast, Dish Network has hundreds of channels available for its subscribers. Even better, those channels are divided up into a variety of entertainment packages which ensure that Dish Network subscribers can choose one that meets their individual needs and budgets. Dish Network offers four different entertainment packages that feature Spanish language programming, one that features programming in Chinese, and other channels in any of eighteen other foreign languages. There is an English language economy package with only forty channels and a variety of English language packages with sixty, one hundred and twenty, and two hundred and seventy channels to cite just a few.
One area where cable companies really can't compete with Dish Network is in the area of high definition television programming. High Definition Television is widely regarded to be the format of the future. It features a picture with a much higher resolution than normal television that has the same proportions as a movie screen. The high resolution and extra wide viewing area create technical problems when it comes to transmitting high definition television programming. As a result of these technical problems, most cable TV providers only offer a couple of token high definition channels, and some don't offer any high definition at all. On the other hand, Dish Network has twenty five high definition channels in its entry level high definition package which is more than any of its competitors- cable or satellite- can offer total.
Cost is another big difference between Dish Network and the cable TV industry. The typical entry level cable TV package is about seventy dollars a month. Dish Network's entry level package is about thirty dollars (its economy package is about twenty). That means that cable TV costs over twice as much as Dish Network. Not only that, but you can get a high definition programming package for less than an entry level cable TV package! That's a big difference in value between the two.
All of these shortcomings in the cable industry- a small selection of channels, inability to provide high definition television, and disproportionately high cost- are all a result of the fact that the technology used by cable TV is inferior to that used by Dish Network. It all really boils down to the fact that the number of channels that cable TV can transmit to its customers is limited by the cables themselves, while Dish Network can deliver a lot more channels because it transmits them over electromagnetic waves. The major difference in price comes from the fact that Dish Network doesn't have a cable network to maintain and upgrade.
With all of this evidence, it should be clear that Dish Network can do a lot of things that the cable TV industry can't and all of them for a much lower price.
