| There can be no denying it: satellite TV offers the | | | | cosmopolitan tastes of city dwellers. Satellite TV |
| best of the best in the world of television | | | | companies, as mentioned, have a truly |
| programming, and everybody knows it! But just | | | | international scope and the programming they |
| what is it about satellite television that is so | | | | offer reflects that fact very strongly and clearly. |
| phenomenal that allows it to be such a fantastic | | | | Cable companies, on the other hand, lack that |
| service? Well, there are several factors to | | | | varied flavor and have a severely more limited |
| consider and a few comparisons to make (mainly | | | | and colloquial line up of channels and programs-an |
| with the rival, cable TV). What is obvious is that | | | | arrangement that is finding less and less echo in |
| thanks to its international reach and ability to | | | | the populous. |
| penetrate into all markets along with the vastness | | | | Technology is another major factor, both in |
| of the content which can be delivered to a single | | | | terms of the advance of satellite systems |
| customer, satellite has been, is, and will continue | | | | themselves and the advantages that customers |
| to be the king of the television realm. | | | | currently can get via satellite TV compared with |
| Satellite TV was simply born to rise to the top of | | | | cable services. With regards to the first issue, |
| the television hill-there was no getting around it. If | | | | things really have come a long way for the |
| you think about it, satellite television is pretty | | | | satellite industry: whereas a few decades ago |
| much the most democratic and accessible of all | | | | when the technologies were first assembled for |
| broadcasting means within the television industry: | | | | satellite television and phone services the |
| anybody can perch a satellite dish on their roof if | | | | capabilities were severely limited and defective, |
| they simply have a clear shot towards the slice | | | | today reliability and dependability are synonyms |
| of the heavens where the "bird in the sky" is | | | | with satellite communications. From reducing signal |
| floating. Compare that with having to get a cable | | | | latency to improving the variety of weather |
| line extended all the way out to your front door | | | | conditions in which a signal will continue to be |
| from the cable company's offices and the | | | | received by a customer, engineers have really |
| differences are more than apparent. Ask any | | | | patched up all the major issues. And, to top it all |
| person living out in the countryside and they will | | | | off, seeing as satellite offers two or three times |
| tell you that satellite communications in general | | | | as many HD channels as the average cable |
| (including television) have been their savior-you will | | | | provider... well, you get the point! |
| hear no mention of cable. Yet it's not only a | | | | In the end, you need look no further than |
| country issue; folks in the city are increasingly | | | | customer satisfaction ratings, which have put |
| realizing that they are better off with satellite | | | | satellite television over cable by a wide margin for |
| than cable. | | | | more than seven years running now! |
| That has a lot to do with the increasingly | | | | |