Although your cable TV provider is praying that you don't realize it, there are a huge number of reasons why your cable TV service can't measure up to a satellite TV service like Dish Network.
Dish Network has the ability to provide a lot more channels than any cable TV company. That's because while there are a few cable TV companies that can provide as many as one hundred and fifty channels to their customers, most can only provide about ninety channels. By contrast, Dish Network has access to over five hundred channels and has numerous entertainment packages with well over one hundred channels. Dish Network's largest entertainment package currently offered has two hundred and seventy channels. That's three times as many as the typical cable TV operator can provide.
Cable TV's shortcomings become much more apparent when you look at high definition televisions. High Definition Television has a wider screen and higher resolution picture which makes it a much more data intensive format than normal television. Because it's more data intensive, it would overwhelm most cable TV operators. Most cable TV companies offer only one or two channels of high definition television if they've found a way to free up enough resources to offer it at all. Dish Network on the other hand has a whopping twenty five high definition television channels as its base number and thirty available in its premium HDTV entertainment package. In areas where local high definition channels are available, they can also be added on to Dish Network's high definition entertainment packages for a small monthly fee.
Another disadvantage of the cable TV industry is that while all of Dish Network's programming is in the Digital Television format, digital television is very rare in the cable TV world. Digital television supplies an incredibly clear picture and sound quality that the analog signal that most cable TV programming is delivered in just can't equal. While some cable companies do provide digital programming, it's rare and they charge extra for it.
You would think that with the shortcomings of the cable TV industry, it would at least give you a bargain when it comest to rates, but apparently that's too much to ask for too. The typical entry level cable television package starts at seventy dollars a month. Dish Network's entry level satellite TV package starts at about thirty dollars a month. That's less than half the cost of the cable TV package. If you want to save even more money, Dish Network also offers an economy package that costs a mere twenty dollars a month. That's less than a third of the cost of the cable package. You can even get a high definition television entertainment package from Dish Network for less than the cost of the entry level cable TV package.
So why does cable have so many shortcomings compared to Dish Network? It really comes done to the fact that cables don't have nearly as much bandwidth as the electromagnetic waves that satellite TV uses to deliver its programming. Despite intense effort to make upgrades this situation isn't likely to change any time soon.
