Cable and dish are Digital TV Service providers that charge a monthly fee for their services and are the two most popular services in the United States of America. And although their services are very popular, there are many complains from users that go unheard by anyone.
The great majority of complains reported are caused by hidden monthly fees, service quality, TV programming availability, etc.
But, what are those hidden fees about?
Dish and Cable users get a monthly charge for the equipment required to receive the services provided by dish and cable carriers. Although most of the people do not understand this type of charges, there are many complains and unhappiness on WHY dish and cable providers add a monthly charge to their subscriber's bill a fee for equipment required for running their services.
As an angry user described it "Paying cable or dish for equipment rental such as converter box and remote control, is like going to work and asking your employer to pay your salary, lunch, cloth you wear to work, car gas, and maintenance of your vehicle that is required component for you to make to work everyday"... Ridiculous!!
Also, another notorious complains many users have is a simple dish or cable programming can range anywhere from $39.00 to $55.00 a month. However, many times users are required to pay additional $5.00 "to get the local ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox stations" (Business Journal /seattle/stories/2009/01/12/story7.html). Now, a monthly fee of $45.00 to $50.00 will allow users to watch their local channels plus basic dish/cable programming (which contains many duplicate channels). Now, as a sport fan a user must pay an additional $150.00 to be able to watch NHL, NBA, MLB, or NFL. That is just plain INSANE. And that is not to mention another charge if you want to have an HDTV signal as well.
Angry users complain that "It feels like dish and cable companies have monopolize the TV business". And the main question angry users ask is, "What other choices does anyone have?" if we don't want to pay for equipment rental fees on top expensive programming fees.
So, is there any other option other than Cable or Dish?
Analog TV is dead since June 2009 in the United States which means that the two most popular options for consumers in the USA are Cable or Dish.
However, in this ever changing world of technology, back in the late to mid 90s a new technology was emerging. Internet TV
Although at the birth of Internet TV, many analysts were skeptical about its quality and success since broadcasting video over the Internet required high speed to operate at its fullest. And in the 90s the Internet was just getting started with dial-up which was beyond the minimum requirements.Now, in 2009 dial-up is still available however, it's not as popular as high speed DSL.
The birth of Digital TV over the Internet is not new since its roots originated back in the mid to late 90s.
With Internet speed logging a minimum of 768KB per second, broadcasting TV over the Internet has become a breeze. And as technology kept revolutionizing Internet speeds, more channels became part of the largest network of Digital TV Signal over Internet. This new technology is already producing over 12,000 channels from around the world including all major TV networks in the USA.
Internet TV is no longer a new technology and it should not be come as a shocking surprise to many that there are already millions doing so. Millions of users have switch to a more cost effective solution brought to everyone by the Internet.
Many skeptical analysts have mentioned that it is complicated to watch TV in a computer monitor but with ever changing technology, it's easy to connect your computer to your TV via VGA. With a single purchase of a VGA cable at your local computer store, you can easily connect your computer and send your Internet TV signal directly to your TV with the added bonus that you can use your home LCD/Plasma TV as a HUGE computer monitor as well.
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