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How do you currently watch television at home? Do you have a cable TV setup at your house or do you use one of the satellite TV companies? We use to have cable at our house, but then I seen how you could get more channels with satellite television and for a cheaper price, so we made the switch to a satellite dish. More channels for a cheaper price is one of the big advantages to having a satellite dish.

They are some downsides to satellite TV, but I think they are minor compared to the money you save each month. If a bad storm comes into your area, you can lose a signal for a short time and this isn’t fun when you’re watching a good movie or a big sporting event on TV. We always turn off our televisions anyway when it is lightning real bad outside, so this really isn’t that big of a deal to us. If you don’t mind losing your television for short periods of time during bad storms; then you can watch a lot more channels with satellite TV compared to the channels cable TV offers.

I’m not sure how the cable service runs in your area or what channels they do provide. I know in my area you can get about 80 channels on a basic cable subscription and this will run you about $75 a month. That same 75 dollars could get you 3 times the amount of channels on satellite television. Granted that a lot of those channels are in Spanish or infomercial channels, but you still get double the quality channels with satellite TV. We have 250 channels with our current satellite package we get each month. We have the highest package you can get with satellite without getting the paid movie channels. Now we do get some movie channels with our current package. We get 8 Encore Channels that show good movies and two versions of The Movie Channel. We get IFC and the FOX Movie Channel too and these are about a dozen really good channels for seeing good movies on. We get ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN News, ESPN U along with FOX and SportSouth as our sports channels. Some basic cable packages don’t offer the Hallmark Channel or the Lifetime Movie Channel (different from the regular Lifetime channel) and we get both of these channels with our current satellite package.

Now you can save money and choose a lesser satellite TV package and go for one that has 100 channels. This route still gets you about 10 or 20 channels more for viewing and you would probably save 20 to 30 dollars each month; compared to those that spend $75 a month for a basic cable package. I think the few minor setbacks you have with satellite far out weigh the durability you can find with cable. This is my opinion and I”m glad I have 250+ channels for the less than $80 we spend each month on television. I know prices will vary from one area to another, but if you’re still watching TV with a cable connection, you might want to see what the 2 major satellite companies are offering in your area. We also get a DVR on two of our televisions and this works great for pausing live TV or recording programs to watch later on. Please feel free to let me know why cable TV is better than satellite; if you are indeed a cable TV fan.