Monday, November 16, 2009

What Is The Advantage Of Cable TV Over Satellite TV?

By Aretha Holly

Cable TV and Satellite TV is worth comparing nowadays. People continuously search for the advantage of Cable TV over Satellite TV. These two types are good depending on the personal preference of the buyer. Both of these are way better than the traditional type where the TV has built in antennas to transmit signal to view your shows. Satellite TV and cable TV were modifications and have each unique difference.

Both can be good and beneficial but these two types are worth comparing. Each of this may be the right pick for your home, to know the comparison; the comparison can be determined to many factors such as:

Price: This is the first priority of the people when looking forward on what to choose among these two. Satellite TV is cheaper than the Cable TV. This is because the maintenance of the cables used for cable TV is really high, not to mention of replacing the old cables made of fiber optic cables.

Cable TV has a standard connection than the satellite TV and every TV inside the house have individual price unlike the satellite TV which gives best deal such as free installation to all the rooms. Speaking with DVR or high definition receivers, Cable TV would require an additional cost because it has to be upgraded, unlike the satellite TV that once installed it is already DVR, so it would not require any extra charge.

Channel: There are few channels that Satellite TV is good at like international channels that cable TV does not have. This is the biggest impact that most users would interest more on satellite TV because it captures signal from other countries. This is due to the newest technology that satellite TV was improved on than cable TV.

Equipment: Satellite TV can give be more efficient than the cable TV because it does not have any complicated connections than the cable TV. Cable TV requires you cables and other equipments in order to retrieve signal to view your favorite show. The signal will also depend on the location unlike the satellite that as long as it stands in some area of your property it will give high definition movies, shows, etc in your TV.

Transmission: Satellite TV gives better transmission of signal than cable TV. The signal will give bad effect with satellite TV if weather is not fine and clouds will block the signal. With cable TV, once the cable line is affected, the viewing will also be bad as expected. Every year two of this network are compared, satellite TV's average is around 1% while cable table is 3. 5% percent. This percentage level indicates the down time.

There is an advantage of cable too, the maintenance and repair may be expensive but there are best deals that go with the package and satellite TV does not have. Like, phone and modem for call and internet access. This can be helpful to your monthly expenses than paying for each and separate installation at home.

Any of these two can give advantages to you and your home, other people would prefer the cable TV since they already have it and it could be much expensive if intends to transfer to a different network like the satellite TV; it would be an added expenses that may be much costly. - 2361

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