Satellite TV

When satellite service came for the television programming cable TV was the largest and most popular TV networking. In its early days satellite used to be too large and expensive and only die hard fans would go for it. But with the emergence of dish network and DirecTV people took satellite TV by storm. Here are the reasons which explains that why Satellite TV is making more gains than cable TV in his viewers.

Satellite and Cable TV Installation

Starting with the installation to have cable TV you got have a cable from the broadcast station to your home television digging up your garden. Then you have to choose among standards, which increases in prices as quality increases like for coaxial cable to carry signal long way your home it needs of inserting amplifier after every 5 - 6 Kilo meters approximately 30 - 40 amplifiers of total and in case of fiber optics cable amplifiers are reduced to 3 - 4 but fiber optic cable is far more expensive than coaxial. AND most of all cable is needed to be protected otherwise one small damage can be disaster for all the transmissions. NOW coming to SATELLITES, pay the desired package fee and get free dish and receiver at your home just one cable from dish to receiver. The dish receives the programming from the satellites and transfers to your receiver.

Satellite and Cable TV Signals

Another fact to be considered is signals. Cables provides three types of programming

• Analogue
• Digital
• Hybrid (mixed analogue & digital)

Analogue signals are more immune to noise and provide comparatively low quality picture and sound as VDO and SOUND are transmitted by separate signals. In case of digital cable it is not truly digital because to reach at your house signals have to go through 4 or 5 stations. On the other hand satellites provide you with one hundred percent purely digital programming in high quality standards as your home dish receives directly from the broadcast stations.

Satellite and Cable TV Customer Support

Satellites provide lots of interactive services for the customer like DVR with play and pause feasibility, HDTV providing home theatre experiences in digital Dolby surround sound, electronic program guides, instant weather reports, and so much more customer services like upgrading systems, subscribing new packages, billing information, paying your dues can all be done by sitting at your home that cable does not provide.

Pay Per View

Pay per view feature is provided by both cable and satellite but satellite serves it with flexibility like if you want to have four connections in your home you’ll have to have four receivers and each receiver provides its own pay per view feature so that every one can watch his/her favorite show without any problems. Of course cable provides pay per view feature with set top box but only for one television set.

Packages and Prices

In case of prices the satellite TV is much cheaper than cable TV like for the same number of channels in particular package the cost for an analogue cable is $40.11/month, for digital cable $51.42 and for satellite TV’s Dish network $31.99 and DirecTV $33.99 with free installation and much more extra features.

Satellite and Cable TV Internet

Satellite TV provides fast Internet access @ $60 where as cable does so @ $80 which is quite expensive but is faster than satellites. Though cable net is faster but satellites provide fast DSL connection that is quite faster than normal dial up connection and cheaper than cable net. On the other hand cable net can only be provided in selected USA areas due to its connection problems where as satellites connection can be established where ever you want.

Conclusion

Want to have satellite television programming, pay the desired package fee get free professional installation with free one month programming, DVR and HDTV with free upgrading in high standard of quality, so simple so easy.