If you've been shopping around for a new television service provider, or even your first television service provider, you've probably run up against a lot of confusing propaganda from various companies competing for your business. For example, cable TV still claims to be better than satellite TV, but at least one satellite TV provider tries to entice people to "stop feeding the pig" by switching over to their service. Amidst all of this hype how to you figure out which television service provider is really the best value and the most deserving of your hard earned money? The answer is that the only way to know is to ignore all of that advertising propaganda and look at the actual facts about the various television service providers.
Since there's an excellent chance that you can choose between an average local cable TV provider and a satellite TV provider like Dish Network, we'll look at the average cable TV provider and contrast it with Dish Network. The first difference we notice- and perhaps the most meaningful difference to most TV watchers- is that Dish Network has a lot more channels available to it. While the average local cable TV provider has a maximum capacity of about one hundred channels, Dish Network has about five hundred channels available to it and individual programming packages with as many as two hundred and seventy channels. While there are a few entry level and economy packages offered by Dish Network that have fewer than one hundred channels, the majority of Dish Network programming packages have over one hundred channels and a significant number have over two hundred channels. That means that the typical cable TV company just can't compare with Dish Network when it comes to number of channels.
The fact that Dish Network has a lot more channels at its disposal and a great capacity to transmit them means that Dish Network can provide its subscribers with more options when it comes to customizing their programming packages. (Actually, this shouldn't be difficult considering that cable TV really doesn't offer any way at all for its subscribers to customize their programming packages!) Dish Network's additional channels include sports programming, local channels (that way you have the option of watching them over the air or paying a little extra to receive them in digital quality), adult programming, and international programming in any of nineteen different foreign languages from every part of the world.
Cost is also an important factor when choosing a television service provider and Dish Network appears to have the average cable TV company beat on that score too. That's because Dish Network's entry level programming package costs about thirty dollars a month while the least you can get a cable TV package for is about seventy dollars a month. That's a savings of forty dollars a month or for hundred and eighty dollars a year. Dish Network also provides high definition television programming packages for less than seventy dollars a month and none of the high def programming packages come with fewer than one hundred and five channels. These figures really point out that cable TV just can't beat out Dish Network when it comes to value.
Of course there are even more shortcomings to cable TV when it's compared to Dish Network, but this should give you an idea of the differences.
