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Traits of Satellite TV Make It Superior To Cable TV
Satellite TV is a futuristic technology that delivers a cost effective TV experience for people anywhere. It has actually been around for quite a while, but rose to prominence back in the nineteen nineties when new technology made it possible to deliver TV programming over a satellite signal more effectively and with the use of smaller satellite dishes.
The fact that it became easier to deliver satellite TV service meant that satellite TV actually became affordable enough for most people to enjoy. The smaller satellite dish had just as big of an impact though. A smaller satellite dish meant that people could take advantage of satellite TV without having the unsightliness of the older, larger satellite dishes in their yards or attached to their houses.
This took away a big reason for a lot of people to choose cable TV or continue to rely on over the air TV. Neighbors’ complaints about satellite dishes were no longer an issue and even if concerns of neighbors were never an issue, smaller satellite dishe meant not having to sacrifice space in the yard or garden!
On top of the advantage of the smaller satellite dish, satellite TV has one major thing going for it when compared to cable TV, and that’s bandwidth. Bandwidth is the amount of information that can be transmitted a certain way in a given period of time. The more bandwidth a TV delivery technology has, the more channels it can deliver.
Satellite TV simply has more bandwidth than cable TV. In fact, it has a lot more. While cable TV is limited to about three hundred channels, the big satellite TV providers have over eight hundred channels, when HDTV channel, normal TV channels, and satellite radio channels are all combined. That’s definitely a testament to a lot of bandwidth!
Satellite TV also has a major economic advantage over cable TV. This advantage comes from the fact that when one satellite is launched it can deliver TV programming to every household in the United States. That’s because the TV signals that it broadcasts blanket the entire North American continent, and anyone who has a subscription to a programming package provided by the owner of that satellite can access the programs that are delivered by those TV signals.
In other words, everyone in America is a potential subscriber and it costs very little for a satellite TV company to add an extra subscriber- far less in fact than it does for a cable TV company to add an extra subscriber.
The fact that everyone is a potential satellite TV customer means that satellite TV companies and satellite TV subscribers enjoy an enormous economy of scale. For example, while satellites are expensive to manufacture and launch, that cost can be spread out over a huge number of subscribers, making it cost very little to each of those subscribers.
As more subscribers are added- at very little extra cost after the satellite has been launched- more revenue comes in to the company, and that money can be used by the company to upgrade the services by purchasing more channels and perhaps launching more satellites.
All of this makes satellite TV a lot better than cable TV. Take a look at the current Direct TV deals now.