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Dish Network is well-known as a leader in the satellite TV industry, providing their customers with digital and HD channels, as well as award-winning DVRs. The quality and features of Dish Network equipment and services have actually helped shape the face of home entertainment for almost 20 years.

Dish Network has continued to strive for excellence in products, services and customer service, offering many industry “firsts” that have helped build the of monthly subscribers to over 14 million customers.

Staying with this company’s tradition, Dish Network is offering their “HD Free For Life” guarantee. This can be a refreshing change from programming packages that seem to keep their subscribers trapped in less fulfilling monthly home entertainment services that can not provide high quality viewing.

Dish Network is fulfilling their promise of more HD with the launch of their newest satellite, the EchoStar XV. The main purpose of this satellite was specifically for adding HD channels to existing Dish Network services.

Tom Cullen, the Executive Vice President for Dish Network said, “ The launch of EchoStar XV demonstrates DISH Network’s continuing commitment to delivering the most high-quality HD programming at the best value. DISH Network is the only pay-TV provider that offers ‘HD Free For Life’ to every customer, and we’re proud that EchoStar XV will soon allow us to provide even more high definition channels for free.”

This latest addition to the Dish Network satellite collection was made to enhance Dish Network services for their customers. Dish Network has a proven dedication to the quality of services their customers get on a monthly basis.

Dish Network is so committed to bringing quality to the doors of their customers that they even developed a high resolution formatting to give their customers a viewing experience that is comparable to watching Blu Ray. The Dish Network HD 1080p formatting is the best way to watch the programming, new releases and Pay Per View selections Dish Network has to offer.

Other Dish Network service enhancements include their wide variety of award-winning DVRs. Dish Network has designed their DVRs with room for 90 to 1000 hours of storage for programming, the most that has ever been allocated before in any DVR by any other provider. Dish Network was the first provider that offered a DVR and they have taken their earlier works and improved upon them to make the best DVR on the market.

Dish Network was also the first provider to come out with interactive TV, giving families a new way to spend time at home. Dish Network Interactive TV has games that can be played on the television set. These games come from providers like Disney and Nickelodeon, family-friendly and safe for children of all ages. Dish Network also offers other features in the Interactive TV lineup, like the option to shop, pay bills or even check stock portfolios, all while sitting on the couch.

Dish Network has almost twenty years in the pay TV industry, doing the research and development to create quality programming and equipment that has helped shape the face of the pay TV industry while entertaining millions of Americans.

Cable TV providers can offer their subscribers a wide selection of products and services for the whole family to enjoy. These products and services include a channel selection of over 250 quality channels, with digital and HD options. These channels are offered in a variety of programming packages that are designed to meet the specific entertainment needs of the family.

Cable TV providers can also offer their subscribers popular viewing features like HD channels, the DVR, Video on Demand, pay per view selections and Parental Controls. These features offer hours of additional entertainment with over 10,000 selections on the On Demand menu or live sporting, music and comedy events found with Pay Per View selections. These selections can be enjoyed with the DVR, or digital video record. This recorder can rewind, pause and fast-forward the programming found on these features. The DVR can also record and store up to 60 hours of programming, to be watched on the viewer’s schedule.

The programming found on regular channels and the programming stored on the DVR can be blocked using Parental Controls. Concerned parents can use these Parental Controls to block entire channels or specific programs, for a set time during the day or night, or indefinitely. These Parental Controls make sure that parents have the final say in the viewing materials their children are exposed to.

The Internet Services offered by cable TV providers can be 6 to 8 times faster than the speeds offered by DSL and 100 times faster than dial up. Surfers can download games, videos, movies and music at incredibly fast speeds. These services also come with free online Security Software that can help provide additional protection against popups, spyware, viruses and identity theft. Some cable TV providers also offer Parental Controls for their online services. These Parental Controls can be used to block entire websites or specific content based on rating. With cable TV providers, subscribers get a faster, safer online environment to work or play in.

Cable TV providers are also able to provide their customers with digital phone services. These services come with calling features like call-waiting, three way calling, call return, call forwarding and more, for up to 12 features total. These services can also include voicemail. Some companies even provide e-mail notifications for subscribers when a new voice mail is received. This feature allows subscribers to check their voice mail from any location in the world, as long as there is Internet access. Calling areas include North America, with some companies offering Puerto Rico, as well. Subscribers can make unlimited local and long-distance calls to anywhere in the United States or Canada, with all of these great features, for one low monthly price. Subscribers can stay in touch with friends and loved ones without paying expensive overages or counting minutes.

Cable TV providers offer these services in bundled packages that can save the family money. These packages provide cable TV programming, digital phone services and high-speed internet for one low monthly price that is cheaper than getting these services separately.

Comcast Cable, the largest cable TV provider in the nation, just hired a new Chief Executive to run their cable unit. Neil Smit, former CEO for Charter Cable, the fourth largest cable TV provider in the nation, will start with Comcast Cable after February 28, 2010.

Comcast Cable currently provides service for over an 18,000,000 households, offering cable TV programming, high-speed Internet Services and digital phone services. They offer over 250 channels to choose from, with cable TV products and services that include digital cable, HDTV channels, Video On Demand, Pay Per View events and Parental Controls. To the Comcast Cable channel selections, along with their other products and services, can be found in a variety of programming packages to allow subscribers the freedom to find the programming that meets their specific entertainment needs.

The Video On Demand selection that Comcast Cable offers has over 10,000 viewing selections for education and entertainment purposes. Their Pay Per View events are live and range in topic from sports to music and comedy. While Comcast Cable does offer a wide variety of children's programming, Comcast Cable also offers user-friendly Parental Controls for the adults that want to order their channels without exposing their children to inappropriate viewing materials.

The Comcast Cable high-speed Internet Service, offered with PowerBoost, delivers surfing and downloading speeds that are over one hundred times faster than traditional dialup services, and up to six times faster than the phone company with DSL. These speeds allow subscribers to download large files like games, music, videos and movies, even an HD, at incredibly fast speeds with no drop connections. Comcast Cable is also able to offer free online Security Software for added protection against popups, viruses, spyware and identity theft, protecting the subscriber in the computer. Comcast Cable also offers Parental Controls for their online services, allowing parents to filter out inappropriate websites, content and images. These online Parental Controls are useful as a content blocker or a monitor to keep a record of the sites that have been visited and online instant messaging sessions. The Comcast Cable Parental Controls allow parents the freedom to leave the room and still protect their children.

The Comcast Cable digital phone service is offered in correlation with popular calling features and voicemail. Comcast Cable gives the subscribers freedom to make unlimited local and long distance calls to anywhere in the United States or Canada for one set monthly rate. Comcast Cable does not require their subscribers to count minutes, wait for certain " off-peak" hours or wait for nights and weekends. Subscribers simply pick up the phone and dial, with no expensive ever just worry about paying at the end of the month. Their calling features include call-waiting, call forwarding, three way calling, call return, call screening, anonymous call rejection and more, for up to 12 features in all.

Comcast Cable has provided everything the family needs for quality cable TV, high-speed online and digital phone services. With Comcast Cable the family can get affordability and quality from one provider.

Charter Cable has a wide variety of digital channel selections and programming On Demand. They recently added EPIX service to their lineup, so that customers get these additional selections in their homes, with a regular schedule, or On Demand for the subscribers that work on non-traditional schedules.

The EPIX service is a premium channel presented by Viacom, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Lionsgate. The makers of EPIX strive to deliver a non-stop lineup of new movie releases, original series, comedy events, music and classic feature films. With the combined selections from the libraries of the EPIX collaborators, viewers can get instant access to well over 15,000 titles for a wide variety, making EPIX the largest collection available anywhere.

But now, with help from the Internet, Charter Cable has made the EPIX service available online. With the advent of an online service, EPIX is also committed to providing the largest On Demand selection available online, with over 3,000 selections available in this year alone. This service is offered free of charge to all EPIX subscribers and is available 24/7. With the EPIX service, viewers can watch their movies on their time, with the ability to take these selections on the road with WiFi or to watch them at home on the family computer. With EPIX, through Charter Cable, subscribers have more value and promise in their monthly subscriptions, as well as more portability and convenience.

Rich DiGeronimo, the Vice President of Product Management for Charter Cable, said, “EPIX is a total viewing experience- traditional television, On Demand and online that enables our customers’ TV viewing to evolve through this exciting multiplatform technology. Television is an important part of our lives, and Charter continues to invest in new technologies and services that further enrich our customers’ viewing experience.”

These selections are available in standard and High Definition formatting, giving viewers full choice of quality. On Demand services allow viewers to rewind, pause and fast forward their programming so that they can run to the store, make their own instant replays and fast forward through parts they do not want to see, giving viewers complete control over their movie selections. They can use these added conveniences to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Godfather, Shutter Island, Star Trek, Precious and Tyler Perry’s “I Can Do Bad all By Myself”. Viewers will also gain access to premium comedy and music selections like events featuring The Black Eyed Peas, David Cross, Madonna and Lewis Black.

With so many selections, it is easy to see why anyone would be happy to have the EPIX service available to them, especially if it is available online. Charter Cable has offered a premium service like EPIX online, for free to give their customers a more satisfactory viewing experience.

Charter Cable is the fourth leading provider for digital cable TV services, broadband internet and digital voice services. Charter Cable TV is a premium service offer over 250 channels with On Demand services. The Charter Internet broadband services are known for fast speeds and come with wired or WiFi. Charter Phone offers unlimited local and long distance calling for a single monthly rate. Combined, these services can provide a home with the necessary services for reliable entertainment and communications options.