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Debate has been raging for years now about whether satellite TV or cable TV is superior. This debate has been carried out on a number of levels, from level headed one on one conversations by informed people to outright propaganda being thrown out through the media. However, one thing that's clear is that satellite TV is clearly the better choice.

In order to see how much better satellite TV is, all you have to do is look at Dish Network and all that it has to offer compared to cable TV. Dish Network provides about a thousand total channels compared to the roughly two hundred and fifty offered by the typical cable TV company. They both might have about the same sized premium programming packages, but the difference is that the biggest programming package that a cable TV offers is pretty much all of the channels that it has in total! The fact that Dish Network's top of the line programming package happens to be about the same size as the cable TV industry's top of the line programming packages has more to do with that figure being the maximum number of channels that most households can use rather than what Dish Network is limited to providing.

The difference in total number of channels that Dish Network can provide and what cable TV technology can provide translates into a much greater diversity of programming packages being available through Dish Network. For example, in addition to the mainstream, English language content that Dish Network and the cable TV industry both provide, Dish Network also offers foreign language programming in the form of channels and programming packages from all over the world and in at least twenty different languages including, but not limited to, Urdu, Vietnamese, Farsi, French, German, Italian, Korean, several dialects of Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Hebrew.

There are also lots of kinds of sports programming that you won't necessarily be able to get through cable TV. For example, Dish Network offers seasonal sports subscriptions that provide one or two channels that are devoted to comprehensive coverage of the sport of your choice. We're talking every regular season game in the league or leagues covered by the service! For example, MLB Extra Innings covers all of the games in both the American and National baseball leagues! Some subscriptions even include playoffs. Especially when you look at the variety of different sports that are covered through seasonal sports subscriptions from Dish Network, you really just can't get that degree of choice through cable TV.

Cost is also a big deal when it comes to choosing a TV service provider and that's all the more true these days! Dish Network beats out cable TV on the basis of cost alone. Cable TV is much more expensive than the equivalent package from Dish Network. That alone should be enough of a reason to go with satellite TV instead of cable.

When you look at all of the advantages that a satellite TV provider such as Dish Network can provide for you over cable TV, it should be clear that it's the superior way to get the programming you need.