I switched from cable to sat because of better content. My local cable company cut the music channels from 80 to 10, all country and western and Christian rock, all crap. They dropped BBC America (with one of the best shows ever, The Office), and they dropped OLN which carries a lot of European cycling - Tour de France - etc in the summer. When I called the cable company and asked why they had dropped all these services, they told me they had done focus groups and were providing what most people wanted. When I reminded them that one of the original reasons for cable was to provide people with more choices and not to settle for same old, same old dumb shit. They had no answer. Check the content of the various providers, then decide which has the most of what you want. Technically, there's very little difference.
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I switched from cable to sat because of better content. My local cable company cut the music channels from 80 to 10, all country and western and Christian rock, all crap. They dropped BBC America (with one of the best shows ever, The Office), and they dropped OLN which carries a lot of European cycling - Tour de France - etc in the summer. When I called the cable company and asked why they had dropped all these services, they told me they had done focus groups and were providing what most people wanted. When I reminded them that one of the original reasons for cable was to provide people with more choices and not to settle for same old, same old dumb shit. They had no answer.
Check the content of the various providers, then decide which has the most of what you want. Technically, there's very little difference.