A lot of people are paying a lot more money than they have to because of a stubborn insistence of staying with cable TV when there are better ways to watch TV available. While cable TV was state of the art and a sensible way for many people to get TV back in the seventies and eighties, satellite TV services like Dish Network offer a huge improvement over and above the cable TV technology even with its recent advancements.
For example, all of Dish Network's TV programming is in digital TV format. This means that every single program on every single channel delivered by Dish Network, has a clarity of sound and picture that simply can't be matched by the analog TV signal that's still used by most cable TV providers. While digital TV is available through some cable TV providers, it's still relatively uncommon and you have to pay extra for that convenience.
Another advantage that Dish Network has over cable TV is the fact that while cable TV is only available in certain geographical areas, Dish Network is available just about everywhere on the continent of North America. The limitations of where cable TV is available are determined by where the cables actually run. Most cable networks don't extend beyond the limits of small to medium sized towns. That means that if you live in a really small town or out in the country, satellite TV might be your only option. The fact that Dish Network's programming is delivered via a fleet of satellites in geosynchronous orbit above the equator means that there aren't anywhere near the limitations on where you can get its programming. While this might not matter to you now if you live in a big city, a suburb, or even a medium sized town; if you move at some point in the future, you'll probably find your cable service severely changed or perhaps nonexistent if you move out to the country. Dish Network can provide a lot more consistency no matter where you move. The only thing that changes with your Dish Network programming package when you move is your local channels, and if you choose not to subscribe to them, not even that will change.
Bandwidth, or the capacity to transmit a variety of channels all at once, is another feature that's sorely lacking in most cable TV providers. Dish Network has access of five hundred TV channels while the typical cable TV provider only transmits about one hundred and twenty. This difference really limits your options both in terms of entertainment and in terms of options for programming packages. With cable TV you might have two or three package options, while with Dish Network you have too many to count. The difference is even more dramatic when you look at all of the channels that you can get through Dish Network that you can't get through a local cable TV provider. With Dish Network you can get seasonal sports subscriptions, foreign programming in any of nineteen different languages, and more channels of HDTV programming than anyone else offers. All of this adds up to a lot of reasons to ditch your cable TV service.
