Various companies in the cable TV industry have long maintained that cable TV technology is superior to the technology used by satellite TV companies like Dish Network. In fact one cable TV provider has taken legal action against a satellite TV company- one of Dish Network's competitors actually- because that satellite TV company claims to be able to display more HDTV channels than any cable TV company. (Incidentally, the satellite TV company involved in this suit still doesn't offer as many HDTV channels at Dish Network!) The cable TV company claims that the statements made in the by the satellite TV company are simply untrue, because with the use of new technologies, the cable TV company can in fact provide a lot more HDTV channels than it actually does.
This statement that cable TV is capable of more channels and better service is exactly the kind of hyperbole that the cable TV industry has used against Dish Network and other satellite TV companies since they first hit the scene in a big way back in the nineteen nineties. Now, it seems that the hyperbole has been taken to the extreme of court action.
Of course, the fact that this company says that it is capable of providing more HDTV channels begs one simple question: If this cable TV company is capable of offering more HDTV channels than it currently does, then why is it wasting its time and energy in court, instead of getting down to business and offering all of those channels? The simple answer is that it can't. Maybe this cable TV company hopes to be able to offer a lot of HDTV channels at some point in the future and is afraid of losing subscribers to a satellite TV provider in the meantime, but the fact is that if it could compete with the likes of Dish Network right now, then it wouldn't be using the cowardly tactic of taking a satellite TV provider to court!
So what does this have to do with Dish Network, especially considering that it's not the one being sued? Actually, it means that Dish Network is still the best source of HDTV and a far better source of HDTV than any cable TV company. That's because, the best any cable TV channel can do when it comes to providing high definition television is offering twenty three channels. It's also worth noting that the only area that a cable TV operator can provide twenty three channels to is in New York City and hat the vast majority of cable TV operators offer a lot fewer channels than that. By contrast, Dish Network offers a minimum of twenty five national HDTV channels, and depending on how many local HDTV channels are available in your area, you can get well over thirty total HDTV channels through Dish Network Promotions.
Dish Network Deals out a lot of other advantages over the cable TV industry. For example, the total number of channels that the typical cable TV company can provide is only about one hundred, but Dish Network's largest programming packages has over two hundred and fifty channels, and with extra channels added, it can easily grow to be over three hundred channels. That's something that no cable TV company can do.
