When you look at the typical cable TV provider side by side with a typical satellite TV provider like Dish Network, it becomes clear that Dish Network is a much better television service when it comes to supplying a huge variety of people with the best possible television service at a fair price.
The most obvious difference between Dish Network and the average cable TV company is the number of channels they each offer. Dish Network has over five hundred channels streaming down from its satellites at any given time and has programming packages ranging from a very economical thirty channels all the way up to a grandiose two hundred and seventy channels. When you compare this to the on hundred or so channels that the typical cable TV provider offers, there really isn't much of a comparison when it comes to variety of choice.
This difference between what each can offer becomes even more apparent when you look at the high definition television offerings of each one. Dish Network is the leading television service provider when it comes to high definition television with its ability to offer over thirty channels. While there are a very few cable TV providers that offer twenty two or twenty three channels (in a very limited geographical area and at a huge premium, no doubt), the typical cable TV provider probably doesn't offer more than one or two token high definition television channels. This really doesn't bode well for the future of cable TV considering that high definition television is widely regarded to be the TV format of the future. It just shows that the cable TV industry as a whole is very unprepared for the coming switch to high definition television that will likely take place over the next few decades.
High definition television isn't the only technology that the cable TV industry has been slow to adopt. Digital television is a format that has huge benefits and is easier to implement than high definition television. For one thing digital television is extremely easy to cleanse of the interference present even in underground cables that can robe a television picture of the clarity that it was meant to have. Thats why the old analog signal that most cable providers still use produces a fuzzy picture. Dish Network has completely adopted digital television as its minimum standard for programming and now uses it on all of its programming on all of its channels. Digital Television also makes it easy to implement a number of interactive features like on screen program listings and software that can prevent children from accessing inappropriate programming. These are features that cable TV providers who haven't bothered to implement digital television yet simply can't provide.
There's also a big difference in value between cable TV and Dish Network. While Dish Network programming packages start under twenty dollars, most cable TV companies' rates start at about seventy dollars. That means that you can get a Dish Network package for less than a third of the cost of a cable package. Dish Network is clearly a better value and all around better service than cable TV.
