Do You Have Satellite or Cable?

Satellite or Cable? - Which do you prefer?
@Zezlol (409)
United Arab Emirates
December 10, 2008 7:38am CST
In the early days, someone probably denounced cable by saying, "Television is like water, and no one will ever pay for something they can get for free". Still, people subscribed. Cable provided a tremendous service for those who couldn't receive signals by local affiliates. It rapidly became part of the television landscape. Fifty years later, the television world is littered with cable conglomerates who now compete with satellite companies by offering hundreds of digital channels and consumer-friendly interactive services. Their goal is to get your business. Which one do you have? Satellite or cable?
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15 responses
• United Kingdom
10 Dec 08
I would love to have satellite but we are not allowed to have our own personal dishes! I live in a block of flats and they are strict on things like this. So, I have to have cable, I have no other choice. I am very happy with the cable service that I receive though. I have over a hundred channels and I am forever pressing the buttons on the remote control! Andrew
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@Zezlol (409)
• United Arab Emirates
10 Dec 08
Cable does offer plenty anyways, you're right. People that don't watch TV a lot don't really have need of more channels and such. The downside in your situation is that satellite is cheaper, so that sucks for you. =[ If I was in your situation, it wouldn't really about the differences between the two services, but more about having the choice. There's really nothing to argue about, though, since you're content and, hey, that's life, eh?
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@dawnald (85129)
• Shingle Springs, California
10 Dec 08
We had cable and now we have satellite. Guess I could live without it if I had to but I'm used to it. My kids definitely don't get the concept "when I was a kid we only had 9 channels"...
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@Zezlol (409)
• United Arab Emirates
10 Dec 08
Hahaha! Yes, unfortunately people nowadays don't seem to understand that TV - and all its many different channels - is a privilege (that should not be abused!).
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• India
10 Dec 08
Hi friend, In our place we are using only cable.Even though the technology is changed we are used to cable only.May be in future we may move ourselves to cable.Till than we enjoy ourselves with Cable only. Have a nice day
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@mtsandeep (1586)
• India
10 Dec 08
i have a cable connection. Satellite is having better quality pictures and is best suited for televisions having a higher screen size than the 21 inch. In cable, the picture will look like streched in large screens and the true quality is obtained only in satellite connection. In satellite, we can choose our choice of channels but we don't get this freedom of choice in cable connection. happy mylotting
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@Zezlol (409)
• United Arab Emirates
10 Dec 08
Ooh, I didn't know that satellite was better for larger TV screens. It's good to know, I guess. ^_^ *Jealous of your TV*
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@anne12d (676)
• Philippines
11 Dec 08
In our house, we have cable connection. We prefer this type of connection for our TVs because we have lots of channel to watch to and there is no interruption. We have tried satelite but there are interrurtion and when it's raining or heavy wind experiencing, the connection is interrupted and we have limited channels to watch to. And the scary part is that when there is lightning we should turn off the TV so that our TV wouldn't be damaged.
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• United States
10 Dec 08
I personally have cable (Comcast). I have many friends that have cable and I have many friends that have satellite. I havent really been able to get any of them to tell me why theirs is better than the other so I just stick with cable. I'm open to change though, but it has to be justified to make the switch.
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• India
11 Dec 08
We have cable at home. Cable came to India in the 80s (I think) before that TV watching was was a very boring form of entertainment with the National TV only showing whatever it felt like (most of it was 'educative' lectures by officious looking boring men and women) with a sprinkling of entertaiment programees. However, with the advent of cable TV our world changed overnight. What a rush to get connections and over months and years the gossip was only about who watches what. Funny part is that now with over a 100 channels and most of them showing the same 'entertainment' soaps and serials and reality shows...to me at least it has become as boring as our national TV was. I do still subscribe to the cable, mainly for good sports coverage and some good channels like Discovery, NatGeo and such.
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@andak2007 (3229)
• Philippines
10 Dec 08
I have cable we have cable eversince i was in first year high school...that was more than 12 years ago...and i think my viewing habit had been change with the introduction of cable in our area....i get to watch my favorite shows that are not present in my local channels which are sometimes boring by the way.
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@manunulat (604)
• Philippines
11 Dec 08
Neither at the moment because I'm watching through the internet. Yet, I'm planning to have a cable connection in the future, it's just that... I have free tv at the moment and well, the programs that I like are shown anyway.
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@rainmark (4302)
10 Dec 08
Now we have cable,i can wacth few nice programs and can browse many channels but we can;t view programs in the HD because we are not paying it. Happy posting.
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• United States
11 Dec 08
I just switched back to cable about a month ago and I am happy that I did. I live in an area where it rains a lot and my satellite was always losing reception. It was hard to keep up with the weather with no tv. I am much happier with my cable now and it is costing me about the same and I actually have a few more channels now than I did before.
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@Zezlol (409)
• United Arab Emirates
11 Dec 08
Ah, yeah, satellite obviously wasn't the best service for you. It's cool that cable still costs you about the same amount and offers you more. ^_^
@Zezloler (497)
• United Arab Emirates
10 Dec 08
We have satellite and cable here. We have satellite because it's cheaper than cable for us, and it's my parents' priority to watch the channels from Serbia (we live in Abu Dhabi, as you mentioned... xD). We bought a satellite and have it every day, while we would have to pay for cable each month - and knowing Abu Dhabi, it's just a rip off. xD We don't have weather problems here either, so it just makes more sense to have it instead of cable. =P Satellite doesn't offer many good channels (those are the ones you have to pay for), but it allows for most of the ones we need. We have cable as well but we use it just to get those "extra" channels with good movies that we don't get on satellite for free. Hope that made *any* sense. xD
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@toxicMDR (104)
• Romania
10 Dec 08
I got cable, it kinda sux, i had another connection before (also cable) and that one was awesome
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@bendy113 (36)
• United States
10 Dec 08
I have satellite for the time being but I'm not happy with the sat company. Since local broadcasting agency will be required to transition to digital in February 2009 I will be going back to cable at that time.
• United States
19 Dec 08
Neither. I can't afford it. It is $60 per month just for the basic in my area.
@Zezlol (409)
• United Arab Emirates
20 Dec 08
Ouch, that's steep.