DurkaDurka
I have had both...right now I am renting so cable is all I can have unless I want to donate the dish to the next person....
The Satellite people advertised 24 hour call repair.... but the answering service didn't cut it and that wasn't a valid repair anyway.... I wasn't pleased but that could be the company itself....
I don't know enough about the differences and the cable is really good where I am with the mountains around....which makes Dishing it kinda wobbly.....
In really nasty weather everything goes down in the electrical department anyway and we have a local joke about keeping all the new flashlight gadgets at the ready.....so it wouldn't matter what I had when the television isn't receiving. Thank god for independently juiced radios ....