Cable Unable to Keep Up With Dish Network Benefits
With cable rates rising you might be wondering what alternatives you might have to your current television provider. You may have been subscribing to the same cable company for years, maybe even decades, and making a change from something that you're familiar with to something unknown can be uncomfortable, even if you know it's for the best. Fortunately there are plenty of reasons to go ahead and make the switch from cable.
Probably the best reason to switch is that satellite TV providers like Dish Network offer a greater variety of programming packages for a better price. For example, the typical cable subscription starts at about seventy dollars, while Dish Network's most basic package is about twenty dollars. That's a tremendous savings in just the first month. Dish Network also offers a lot more channels, so there's more flexibility in the packages you can get. Dish Network has packages with forty, sixty, 120, and 180 channels. Additional programming can even be added on top of the 180 channel package. By contrast, the most channels offered by cable companies is around a 120, and most offer ninety.
There's a big difference in the types of programming offered between cable companies and Dish Network. With Dish Network you can get special subscriptions to see the entire seasons of your favorite sports including baseball, basketball, hockey, and college sports. With cable you'll get coverage of local sports through your local channels. If you subscribe to cable television, you're lucky to get one or two Spanish language channels, while with Dish Network you can get packages with dozens of Spanish language channels. If your preference is some other language, chances are that Dish Network can provide you with programming to meet your needs. Just some of the foreign language programming offered by Dish Network includes Farsi, Russian, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Ukrainian, and Chinese.
Dish Network also offers more HDTV programming than any other television provider. It can deliver up to twenty nine high definition television channels that include movies, sports, news, and normal programming. Most cable companies don't bother with HDTV programming and those that do only offer a few channels.
The difference between cable and Dish Network comes down to a fundamental difference in the technology. Cable companies are forced to cram all of their programming through a bundle of wires to deliver it to your home. Dish Network sends it's programming through the air and space using electromagnetic signals which don't have the limitations of cables. For this reason, Dish Network has much more freedom to increase the quantity and quality of programming. We can look at HDTV for an example. HDTV has up to ten times the resolution of standard definition television and much better sound quality. That means that in order to deliver it to your television, the provider has to transmit a lot more data for HDTV than they would for normal television. The data-carrying capabilities of most cable networks are already stretched to their limits. They simply don't have room in the cable for the extra requirements of delivering high definition programming.
Cable companies are trying to expand their systems so that they can deliver more channels and programming in higher quality formats like digital television and HDTV, and that's where the extra costs are coming from. When you pay more for cable, you're paying more for the cable company to struggle to catch up with Dish Network. On the other hand, if you switch to Dish Network right now, you'll pay a lot less to get everything right now that cable is trying to deliver in the future.
