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If you’ve been thinking that satellite TV is the only way to go in order to get a lot of different channels and modern TV technology, then you’ve obviously succumbed to the propaganda of the satellite TV companies.

People have always enjoyed sitting down in front of the TV as a way to relax and socialize. In many ways TV programming has become the universal language of our culture in the sense that it gives people who would otherwise be complete strangers something to talk about. This common ground is a basic requirement for a cohesive culture.

The cable TV industry practically invented the idea of bundling home telecommunications packages together for more convenience and greater savings and despite the efforts of the satellite TV industry, cable TV still remains on top for this method of delivering high quality service to its customers.

Cable TV has had a less than stellar reputation in the past, but there are some things that Comcast is doing (and has done) that make cable TV worth looking into again. The most basic thing that Comcast has done was to embrace digital TV technology. This may seem pretty elementary, but it actually has some pretty far reaching implications. For example, using digital TV to transmit TV programming has the benefit of allowing each video stream to be compressed so that it takes up less bandwidth. When each channel takes up less bandwidth, a cable TV company like Comcast can fit more channels over the existing cable infrastructure without having to replace it or add more cables. This compression technology makes Comcast able to provide over three hundred channels, making it at least as good as any satellite TV service.