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Satellite TV is a huge style dish made in the 90's usually but is the same as Dish Network and DirecTV. Also Satellite TV is another way of bringing you your network and local and favorite channels without having to pay a corporate company such as Cableone or Classic or COX or Cambridge.

Dish Network and Directv or DTV.. the differences in these two are simple... Basically here's the deal Dish Network runs of 6 Great Huge Satellites but only uses 2 to 3 depending on your local stations. Directv uses 4 satellites but they are overloaded with 20 million customers and cause Directv to pixelate or lose signal while Dish Network can hold 20 million and not pixelate or lose signal. Another huge deal between them are the dishes and storms. Dish Net can withstand 100mph winds and still not lose a signal DTV can withstand 100mph and lose signal constantly... The main deal here is the design of the dishes the switches and such and also a main factor is who installed them and the ends..

Price, channel choice, how many trees to cut down. Ask the suppliers, they will answer your questions faster then this forum.

Lets not forget the free to air sats, They offer alot of good stuff to watch that is free and i mean free(sports and education are the bulk here)

Here is a website you can reference comparing the two. http://www.dishtvreviews.com/

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Satellite vs. Cable

Price... and that's about it.

you can she worldwide channels in sattelite tv.


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Price, equipment, and programming differ between the two. Satellite tends to offer more channels, as well as most have Sirius Radio available. Dish Network has equipment that allows one box for two TV's, so that saves money. The website http://www.dishtvreviews.com/ has a pretty good comparison. Also it compares two major satellite providers.

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Cable boxes connect to cable systems, which are wires strung both above and underground. Satellite dishes are located on one's roof or in another area with unimpeded access to the sky, which they need to pick up signals from satellites in space. You generally need to be in a city or suburban area in order to receive cable, but users can pick up satellite signals in almost any part of the world, urban or rural.

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Yes, satellite TV is clearer than cable TV. It also has more channels and you can read more at www.directv.com/DTVAPP/content/directv/competition

Satellite isn't always clearer than cable. If you have a HD television and have HD cable services, the picture is very crisp! Satellite is easily knocked out in a thunderstorm.

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The difference is that a Satellite Television requires a satellite signal to pick up the data whereas a Cable Television can receive it through cables such as fibre optics.

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The major benefit is that it is on average, cheaper than cable. There are reliability issues, though.

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